Theme: Power

Our event is all about people who are willing to break boundaries and redefine concepts.
Our list of speakers currently includes:

Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese dissident who has spent 18 years in jail for his pro-democracy beliefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng

Misty Copeland, the first African American Soloist for the American Ballet Theatre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Copeland

No Malice- Grammy nominated rapper from hip hop group Clipse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipse

Bobby Ghosh
Editor-at-large, TIME magazine, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Ghosh

Maureen Orth is an award winning journalist, author and Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine

Mike Smith is President and Chief Digital Officer of Forbes' internet publishing division, and oversees Forbes.com, an award winning website that receives 18 million unique visitors each month.

Derek Brown is a writer, bartender and owner of acclaimed bars The Passenger, and 2012 James Beard award nominee, the Colombia Room in Washington D.C.

Cynthia P. Schneider is a professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and nonresident senior fellow with the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings. She previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.

Andrew Yang is the Founder and President of Venture for America, a fellowship program that places top college graduates in start-ups for 2 years in low-cost U.S. cities to generate job growth and train the next generation of entrepreneurs

Ann Pendleton-Jullian is an architect, educator, and writer of international standing, and Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University.

Amy Zalman is an expert on the role of narrative in policy, business, and strategic communications.

Tai Murray is an award winning violinist

Daniel Blair is head of the Blair Lab at the Georgetown Institute for Soft Matter Research.

For more information please visit www.tedxgeorgetown.com/speakers

Lohrfink Auditorium
Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia, 20057
United States