TEDxCollegePark | A Virtual Experience

We want a future where one's zip code should not determine their lifespan, one’s gender or gender identity does not limit professional growth, where the color of one's skin does not determine how they are treated and where access to opportunities is open to ALL.

11am-3pm EST

March 19, 2021

Virtual Event

Virtual Experience

This event will reimagine elements that make an in-person event special for an online space. From smaller group discussions, virtual networking and even Meet the Speaker events, this event is one to create memories and build new relationships as you hear about Ideas Worth Spreading.

We look forward to bringing you thinkers and doers from all across the globe to your screens in 2021.

1000+

Participants

10

Presenters

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Ideas

Presenters

Stay tuned for new presenters to be shared weekly!

Reggie Williams

Former NFL Player
Disney Executive

Reggie Williams is a former NFL linebacker and College Football Hall of Famer who was instrumental in building a sports themed empire during his tenure as a Disney executive. During his fourteen years with the Cincinnati Bengals, Williams was honored as the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year for his community service, and later served on the Cincinnati City Council while still playing including leading the team in tackles in Super Bowl XXIII. He also had stints as GM for the New York/New Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football and as an NFL executive who established the first NFL Youth Education Town. A native of Flint, Michigan, he attended Dartmouth College and is the author of the book Resilient By Nature.

Madeline Delp

Ms. Wheelchair USA, 2017
Accessibility Advocate

Madeline Delp is the current Miss Asheville USA and is the first women in a wheelchair to ever compete in Miss North Carolina USA. Her journey of going from being a shy and newly-paralyzed ten-year-old with a spinal cord injury to climbing Mt. Rushmore, BASE jumping, traveling the world and winning Ms. Wheelchair USA in 2017, shows the truth that we can all define our own potential. As a keynote speaker, she shares this message with anyone dealing with life “disabilities” across the USA.

Sara Sinclair

Oral Historian
Author

Sara Sinclair is an oral historian of Cree-Ojibwa & German-Jewish ancestry. Sara teaches in the Oral History Masters Program at Columbia University. She is the editor of the oral history collection, How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America. She has contributed to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research’s Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive, Obama Presidency Oral History, and Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project. With Peter Bearman and Mary Marshall Clark, Sinclair edited Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, published by Columbia University Press in spring 2019. Sara’s current and previous clients include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of the City of New York, and New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

Matt Beranek

Artist
TikTok Influencer

My name is Matt Beranek and I am a 16 year old, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have always loved to draw, and in December of 2019, I got a iPad and transitioned from traditional to digital art. I started a TikTok page to display my art for fun. Now, with 1.7 million followers. my goal is to inspire my followers and young artists to follow their passions and not be afraid to put themselves out there.

Ryan Maliszewski

CEO Mozzeria
Former FBI Executive

Ryan Maliszewski joined Mozzeria, Inc. as its first Chief Executive Officer early last year and just opened Mozzeria’s second location in Washington, DC within the H Street Corridor in the middle of a global pandemic over Labor Day weekend. Previously, Ryan was the Director of the Gallaudet Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute as well as an Executive Strategy and Technology Advisor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Upon graduating from the University of Arizona, Ryan began his career in DC working on Capitol Hill for a United States Senator as well as for the Chief Administrative Officer of the House for several years prior to joining Booz Allen Hamilton, a management and technology consulting firm largely responsible for managing billion dollar budgets and contracting services for U.S. Government clients. Ryan has long been a serial entrepreneur since 2002 and has been involved with the local community where he has provided strategic planning support to a number of non-profits and currently sits on DC Mayor Bowser’s Innovation & Technology Inclusion Council (ITIC) as well as the Economic Development & Entrepreneurship Committee.

Desiré Cardoza

Drag Queen
LGBTQ+ Advocate

Desiré Cardoza began her career as a drag queen in the western area of Puerto Rico in 1997, under the guidance of different divas. One of these divas was the actor and comedian Alex Soto, a beloved and well-known drag queen and TV personality in Puerto Rico. In 1999, Desiré became the first “Queen Plus” at the Faces Nightclub in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. From that moment on, she began performing at different stages throughout the island. In 2003, she was selected to lead the Western Divas after only 2 years as a member. It has been 20 years since its founding, many transvestites have been part of this legendary group, including fellow transformist as members of the Cardoza house. Desiré has had the opportunity to work on television, theater, and has performed in Florida, Atlantic City, Dominican Republic, New York City, and more. She is a proud member of her church, her amazing family, and her community. She also serves as a counselor for student organizations of the LGBTTQ + SPECTRUM community in the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus.

José Pinto Duarte

Space Architect
Scientist

José P. Duarte (Lic Arch UT Lisbon 1987, SMArchS 1993 and PhD MIT 2001) is the Stuckeman Chair in Design Innovation and director of the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing at Penn State, where he is Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and Affiliate Professor of Architectural Engineering and Engineering Design. Dr. Duarte was co-founder of the Penn State Additive Construction Laboratory (AddCon Lab) and his research interests are in the use of digital technology to design and make mass customized affordable housing. Recently, he co-edited (with Branko Kolarevic) the book "Mass Customization and Design Democracy" (Routledge, NY, 2019) and his team was awarded 2nd place in the finals of the "NASA 3D Printed Mars Habitat Challenge."

Ahn Hyo-jin

CEO of TEKTON SPACE Inc.
VR Tech Influencer

Hyo-jin Ahn was born in 1975 in South Korea.
He majored in computer science and worked as a director of media art and VR content development.
He established Tekton Space in April 2016 with the slogan of "Giving good influence to the world with technology". So far, Tekton Space was trying to create vocational rehabilitation contents for PWD (people with disable), unification education contents for the two Koreas, and contents for the 70th anniversary of the Korean War to give good influence with virtual reality technology.

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