Theme: React, Reflect, Respond

TEDxKeene 2019 will engage and inspire the audience through powerful presentations that explore how we encounter, understand and answer the complexities of our world. It’s the goal of the event to challenge the audience on how to face conflict, how to find peace and to look beyond the idle to gain reflection in order to better respond. Nine presenters will share stories, performances and experiences that will answer the questions; How do we nurture our ability to reflect? How do our reactions and reflections inform our response? How are other affected by our reactions and responses?

The Colonial Theater
95 Main St.
Keene, New Hampshire, 03431
United States

Adar Cohen

Conflict Resolution

With Adar’s help, gang leaders and police officers in Chicago are preventing gun violence. Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland are planning for a shared future. Across the private and public sectors Adar has helped people have big conversations that lead to powerful results. A Harry S. Truman Scholar, a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, and a George Mitchell Scholar, Adar holds a PhD in conflict resolution from the University of Dublin. He has lectured at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and at the invitation of the King of Bhutan, lectured and consulted at Sherubste University, the Himalayan Kingdom’s first institution for higher education. He is a co-founder of Civic Leadership Foundation, which has achieved life-changing outcomes for over 20,000 at-risk youth.

B. Snair

Musician

B. Snair is a musician, guitarist and songwriter that prides himself on creating music that encompasses the feel of the nature of New England, where he was born and raised. His songs are primarily guitar driven with the use of looping drum pads, bass riffs and beat boxing. As a teenager, he started playing guitar and doing vocals for a metal band where he got his binitiation into the music scene. Several years later his music has become a blend of different styles taking influences from indie, hip hop, and pop music.

Briae Robillard

Entrepreneur

Briae is an entrepreneur with Project InspiHER, a non-profit that is currently in the building stages and aims to help teen girls become financially free. She hosts a 5 Star Podcast on Itunes called "Slay in Your Lane" and is a social media consultant and marketer for small businesses. She is a recent graduate from Keene State College and was recognized as New Hampshire's Woman of the Year 2019.

Cody Gauthier

Therapist

I am a natural extrovert who draws energy from connection. I have been lucky enough to find my passion as a therapist and look forward to growing every day in a career that I love. I have worked in residential drug treatment, adolescent children services, acute inpatient services, and am currently working with young adults and adolescents in an Outpatient Drug Treatment Center, as well as in Private Practice. I am also lucky to have the opportunity to teach Psychology courses at the Undergraduate Level. More Recently, I have been fortunate to share my clinical experience, as well as my own story and background in speaking for Colleges, Universities and Healthcare Organizations ranging in topics from Addiction, Men's Mental Health, and Eating Disorders.

Craig Thompson

State Legislator and local farmer

Craig Thompson is a father, farmer and first term state representative. He lives on a farm in Harrisville and is happiest when he is hiking, paddling or camping with his family in the wild places far away from the sharp edges and solid surfaces of civilization.

Nick Wright

Musician

New Hampshire based rapper, vocalist, and songwriter Ethyric has been freestyling for over a decade and decided to start recording his music after coming out of a dark period in his life. In 2016 he released an EP called “Journey of a Hero” and followed it up with his first full length album “Stream of Consciousness” in 2017. Ethyric pursues his passion for music and songwriting by studying the craft daily and constantly expanding his knowledge and skills.

Patricia Pedroza Gonzalez

Professor

Dr. Patricia Pedroza González is a faculty member at Keene State College. Her teaching include topics about social identities, Latino/a Studies, and cross-cultural understanding of diverse social problems.She is interested in participatory community learning processes inside and outside of the classroom. She is also an independent performer and presents her artistic work for diverse audiences.

Sarah Franklin

Dancer

After graduating from The Hartford Conservatory in 1981, Sarah went on to dance in New York City where she performed with notable choreographers: Phylis Lamhut, Robert Small, Linda Tarnay, Elise Long and many downtown choreographers. She taught Limon technique at The Ruth Currier Studio, The Limon Institute, and Dancespace. She went on to live in Connecticut where she taught at Wesleyan University, Trinity College, Fairfield University and was the interim Dean of Dance at the Hartford Conservatory. She move back to her home area (Peterborough) in 1999 where she went on to teach at Franklin Pierce University and MoCo Arts where she recently retired after 15 wonderful years of teaching modern dance to local teens

Teresa Starkey

Teacher

Teresa Starkey is a longtime educator in the Monadnock Region, serving as a classroom teacher in Gilsum, Chesterfield, and Westmoreland, and for the past 12 years as a reading specialist in Wheelock and now at Fuller School. When she’s not at school, you might see her running the streets of Keene with the Body and Soul Road Runners, rowing the waters of the West and Connecticut Rivers with the Brattleboro Outing Club Rowing Club, biking the rail trails of Keene, or volunteering at Hundred Nights, Inc, where she also serves as a Board Member.