TEDxGrandJunction 2020 Schedule

8am – Registration

9am – Session 1

Diana Crabtree Green – Shifting Financial Gears
Gina Heumann – Childhood Trauma Affects Us All
Logan B. Watkins – Finding Superheroes: At Home and Abroad
Geoff Mueck – A Road to Nowhere

10:30am – Session 2

Stacy Mendell and Matt Angleman – Can Shelter Pets Heal A Community
Shannon D. Pinto – Diversity in State Government
Jen & Codi Mendenhall – Codi’s Life – From Coding to Communication Techonology

11:45am – Lunch

1:00pm – Session 3

HAKA Dance Performers
Bernie Buescher – How Colorado solved the redistricting challenges and passed meaningful reform
Karl Castleton – 40 years in tech: Where we went wrong!

2:30pm – Session 4

Kayra Martinez – Using Art as a Powerful Medium to Transform the Lives of Refugees in Greece
Savanah Overturf – Autism through my eyes
Michelle Boisvenue-Fox – Palaces for the People: Library as Community Builder

3:40pm – Session 5

Shawnee – Music is Medicine
Randy Coleman – If Not For You, For Someone Else
Victoria Chavez-Herrera – The Last Industrial Frontier

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