Announcement: Welcome, speakers of TEDxSalem 2017!

One of the hard­est jobs the TEDxSalem team has is select­ing speak­ers, espe­cial­ly when, like this year, we receive almost 50 well-thought appli­ca­tions on inspir­ing, con­tro­ver­sial and infor­ma­tive top­ics.

It was not an easy task to nar­row down the selec­tion, but after much delib­er­a­tion, we are proud to intro­duce the class of TEDxSalem 2017.

Alia Bra­ley | Direc­tor of Pro­grams at the Albert Ein­stein Insti­tu­tion
Gina Ochsner | Award win­ning author and writer in res­i­dence at Cor­ban Uni­ver­si­ty
Jer­ry Braza | For­mer pro­fes­sor, Bud­dhist teacher, author and con­sul­tant
Karen Hol­man | Chem­istry Pro­fes­sor at Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty and punk rock­er
Kathryn Cel­leri­ni Moore | Artist In Res­i­dence
Megha Joshi | Stu­dent and inven­tor
Nick Sym­monds | Olympic Ath­lete, Out­door Enthu­si­ast, Writer and Entre­pre­neur.
Rebec­ca Mait­land-Court­ney | Cre­ative com­mu­ni­ty thinker and activist
Renee Mitchell | Mul­ti­me­dia artist, teacher/facilitator, com­mu­ni­ty advo­cate and cre­ative rev­o­lu­tion­ist
Ter­es­sa Raiford | Con­tem­po­rary Civ­il Rights leader and com­mu­ni­ty orga­niz­er
Vanes­sa Tim­mons | Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Ore­gon Coali­tion Against Domes­tic & Sex­u­al Vio­lence
War­ren Bin­ford | Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Law at Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty, Direc­tor of the Clin­i­cal Law Pro­gram
Yese­nia Gal­lar­do | Co-own­er of Poda Foods

As the months lead­ing up to TEDxSalem 2017 unfold, you will be hear­ing more about them and their top­ics, so stay tuned.