Theme: Redefining the Defined

Join us at TEDxEarlhamCollege 2020, where speakers will redefine the defined in Earlham terms in a stimulating afternoon of presentations that will spark new ideas and opportunities across all disciplines.

Earlham College
801 National Road West
Richmond, Indiana, 47374
United States

Emma Milner-Gorvine

Junior at Earlham College studying Spanish with double minor in TESOL and Jewish studies

Emma Milner-Gorvine is finishing her junior year at Earlham College with a degree in Spanish and Hispanic Studies and a double minor in Jewish Studies and TESOL. While her Jewish Studies minor has greatly impacted her Earlham experience and has taught her a lot about Judaism, especially in the United States, she does not believe that is the main thing that makes her qualified to speak on antisemitism. She thinks that being a Jewish student at a small liberal arts college, having navigated both the Jewish community outside of and at Earlham, as well as being Jewish in a non-Jewish world is what makes her qualified. She has both done the research, and also lived the experience. She has experienced antisemitism from the left and right and wants to share those experiences with others so we can all work towards a better world.

Emmett Smith

Assistant professor of biology

Emmett Smith is a professor of molecular biology at Earlham College. They enjoy reading, riding their horse, and working and traveling in Iceland. They have spent the past few years asking themself how they want to be seen and identified, leading to a surprising self-discovery.

Joshua Friedberg

Music historian, teacher, singer-songwriter, and sometime radio DJ based in Chicago

Josh Friedberg, an Earlham College alum from the class of 2011, lives in Chicago, has a master's degree in English, and has published over 30 articles as an essayist and music historian. He has also won multiple awards from communications contests for his writing. For many years, however, as an autistic person, he assumed he wasn’t creative because his ideas about everything were different from others’. He shares his creative journey in the hopes that others will be inspired to do creative work, regardless of whatever seeming limitations they have.

Jus Tavcar

Sophomore from Slovenia currently studying Art History and Marketing at Earlham College

Jus Tavcar is a second-year student of Art History, Marketing, and Museum Studies at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He grew up in a small European country of Slovenia, where he was raised in a family of artists and art lovers. Son and grandson to art collectors and sibling to two artists, he realized very early not only what it means to be an artist, but also how to survive as one. He was fortunate to have been deeply immersed in art education in his household, which has helped him notice the lack of education of the artistic practices across the school systems. Jus is passionate about bringing art closer to diverse audiences and implementing it into more and more STEM overpowering curricula.

Lan Phan

Senior for Vietnam double-majoring in Human Development and Social Relations and Global Management

As an international student from Vietnam and an introvert, Lan Phan spent her last four years grappling with how her identity and personality fit in the culture of social activism at Earlham College. Through her journey and the people she met along the way, Lan observed a subset of the population that she could fit into: the quiet activists. She started small by offering her help with i4inclusion, a project that combated violent extremism on social media platforms. Three years later, she found herself working with refugees at a solidarity organization in Greece. Entering her Ph.D. program this Fall 2020, Lan seeks to use her research to create spaces that bridge differences and challenge systems of informal power.

Pat Foreman

Pharmacist + founder of nonprofit dedicated to local foods and global sustainability

Pat Foreman is a passionate decades-long supporter of the chicken movement to bring flocks back into our culture and employ chickens’ skill sets in gardens to build top soils, provide local protein, decrease carbon footprints and enable healthy local food supply systems. She has presented workshops and book signings at major national festivals and conferences across the US, including Mother Earth News Fairs, Monticello Heritage Harvest Festivals, National Heirloom Festival and many others. She is often a guest on radio and TV shows. She is the founder of the Gossamer Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to local foods and global sustainability; “we cannot have one without the other”. Pat graduated from Purdue University with degrees in Animal Science (genetics and nutrition) and Pharmacy. She has a Master of Public Affairs from the Indiana University Graduate School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.

Tianxiang (Derek) Tan

Senior in Global Management from Tangshan, China

Tianxiang (Derek) Tan is a student (now alumnus) at Earlham College. He came to the US with a strong preference for the US political system, while hating that of his home country, China. However, as he encountered new perspectives, he found striking similarities between both and the misconceptions underlying their differences and has now developed a more holistic idea of the two cultures. He hopes to help both reach a mutually beneficial understanding of one another. A global management student, Derek set his career path on business innovations through building start-ups, joining competitions, and serving on college IT, Marketing, and Finance groups. He has interned at Daimler and Alibaba Group. He was also elected co-chair for the Student Organization Council and served as a student representative to the college Board of Trustees. Now a student at Cornell Johnson School of Management, he hopes to leverage technology to build cultural and economic connectivity within the world.