Speaker Announcements
Speaker Announcement: Michelle Rowley — Permission granted. Now, GO!
Michelle is a self-taught software developer who seeks a deeper understanding of the world and the chance to change it for the better. She aspires to empower women to excel in their lives through technology, which she believes anyone can … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Ryan Saari — Altruism Meets Imbibing
From a front-page New York Times article to a spot on The Colbert Report, Northeast Portland’s Oregon Public House garnered international attention last year when it became the world’s first nonprofit brew pub. At the heart of Oregon Public House … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Catherine J. H. Miller — Fine Art Belongs to Everyone
Internships. Many of us have been there. Some of us lucked out and got do more than just fetch coffee and make copies. We got some hands-on experience, some networking opportunities and at the very least a window to greater … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Michael Curry — A Life of Grand Design
Early in life, Michael Curry decided that he would make a living by making art. But at the start of his career as an artist he had no idea that he would invent his own style of live-performance art that … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Gideon Freudmann — Playing With Sound
If you don’t know Gideon Freudmann by name, you certainly may have heard him play. The best word to describe his singular style comes from the artist himself: CelloBop. Using the electric cello as his entryway into improvisational classical, blues, … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Tyler Tervooren — Adventure, Purpose, and Intentional Uncertainty
A self-described “riskologist,” Portlander Tyler Tervooren challenges people to embrace uncertainty and take risks. If he could harness the pulse and energy of the 700 TEDxConcordiaUPortland (now known as TEDxMtHood) attendees in the room, Tyler would ask them to admit … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Dann Stayskal — A Digital Craftsman
Ask Dann Stayskal what he’d like to give a talk on and here are just some of the topics that he is both personally interested in and highly-qualified to talk about: computational meta-ethics (using computers to calculate the rightness or … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Rita Golden Gelman — A Female Nomad
How would you classify a lifestyle that involves rarely knowing where you’ll be in six months, moving through the world without a plan, and watching for serendipitous opportunities? Rita Golden Gelman is a self-styled anthropologist, a participant-observer with a heavy … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Mic Crenshaw — The Force of Words
Hip-hop has always been about change. The constant influx of “the new” drives the genre, leading to creatively poetic rhymes, varied subject matter, humorous boasts, and innovative beats. Drum breaks from 60’s and 70’s funk and soul records laid the … Continue reading
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Speaker Announcement: Tyler Jones, Grow with Gusto
In a state with 38,000 farms, most of which are 50 acres or smaller, people in Oregon have a definite chance to develop a more intimate relationship with their farmer. As a state we’re not a complete anomaly, but the … Continue reading
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