Speakers

Speakers are being announced on a daily basis. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to see the new announcements as they are made.

Here are the speakers that have been announced thus far:

10:00 am

James Arnold Taylor - Professional Voice Actor who plays roles ranging from a Mini-Wheat to Obi Wan Kenobi
John Sharify - Storyteller and Filmmaker
C.J. Liu - Radio Host and Life Coach
Phillip Thurtle - Director of the UW Comparative History of Ideas Program.
Terry Brooks - Writer of fantasy literature
Mark Mueller-Eberstein - Rutgers professor exploring human & technology trends for business
Yee Won Chong - Activist, Organizer and Trainer
Danny Dover - SEO consultant and author, marketer, life list completer
Karrie Kohlhaas - Cultural anthropologist
Cynthia Lair - Culinary Curriculum Director for Bastyr University's Nutrition & Culinary Arts program

1:30 pm

New Old Time Chautauqua - Traveling Entertainers and Educators
Jessie Woolley-Wilson - eLearning leader
Lisa Chin - Executive Director of Year Up Seattle
Leslie Morgan Steiner - Author and Columnist
Kate Nichols - Artist and TED Fellow who combines nanoscience with centuries-old techniques
Logan Smalley - Director of TED-Ed
Howard Frumkin - Dean of the UW School of Public Health
Eleuthera Lisch - Develops and implements youth violence prevention and gang intervention programs
Rick Williams - Master Woodcarver
Andrea Brenneke - Attorney, Mediator, Negotiator
Gabriel Teodros - Seattle Hip Hop artist focused on social consciousness & third world issues

4:15 pm

Lesley Hazleton - Writer and Journalist, exploring the arena where politics, religion, & history intersect
Phil Borges - Photographer, Author, Documentor of indigenous & tribal cultures. Past TED Speaker
Kathleen Flenniken - Engineer turned state poet laureate
Blaine Harden - Journalist, Author
Peter Ward - UW Professor of Biology and Earth & Space Sciences
Andrew McMasters - Founder and executive director of Jet City Improv
Andre Golard - Neuroscientist
Gerald Nepom - Research Director of Benaroya Institute & the Immune Tolerance Network
Jonah Sachs - Storyteller, in online videos and a book that explores the power of stories
Roger Ressmeyer - Director/Producer of the Visions of Tomorrow film project

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