Dr. Daniel Webster approaches gun violence as a public health crisis and utilizes rigorous, non-political scientific research to inform policymakers and the public on evidence-based strategies for preventing violence and developing sensible firearm policies.
About Alice Renowned economist—and also MacArthur Genius, former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board— Alice Rivlin has …
The San Francisco-based Inspector Gadje is a powerhouse brass band, featuring up to 14 musicians, that specializes in high-energy Balkan Romani brass band music and emphasizes cultural respect as non-Romani allies who study and perform the tradition.
Ram Sahasranam quit his job as an investment banker just one day after seeing his first TED Talk. He is now the co-founder of Xtremum Solutions, the creators of Praxify, a cloud-based, speciality-specific, no typing required, electronic health record and practice management system. Ram is also the CEO and Managing Director of Prime Technologies and Innovations, which is dedicated to commercializing clean technologies and building sustainable infrastructure in East Asia. He was instrumental in bringing TED to India, and serves as a TEDx ambassador. Married to a doctor, he is also a passionate racer and an award winner for building India’s first student Formula-style racecar.
Rebecca Adamson is a Cherokee economist and social entrepreneur who founded both the First Nations Development Institute and First Peoples Worldwide to advocate for the rights and economic self-determination of Indigenous Peoples globally, most notably by pioneering the first microloan fund in the U.S. and creating tools to hold corporations accountable for Indigenous rights risks.
The music of Jordanian virtuoso Farah Siraj is heard all over the world. She has performed at the United Nations, the Nobel Prize Hall, and the World Economic Forum. She had a #1 hit in India and her humanitarian songs have touched audiences from refugees in camps in Darfur to European royalty. Farah had her first break at 16, with a sold-out record that established her among the pioneers of female band leaders in Jordan. In 2011, Farah released her solo album NOMAD, which fuses influences of Middle Eastern music, flamenco, jazz, bossa, and pop, with lyrics in Arabic, Spanish, and English, and musicians from five continents. Soon after that came her Arabian Jazz Project (2012), and her 2014 release: Dunya. The Farah Siraj performance group is: Farah Siraj, Andreas Arnold, Andres Rotmistrovsky, and Marcelo Woloski.
Dr. Rupal Patel is a leading speech scientist and entrepreneur who founded VocaliD to create personalized synthetic voices for individuals with speech impairments, and she is now focusing her research on using the human voice as a biomarker for health.
Gypsy Sound Revolution was founded to create an ecstatic Indo-Gypsy fusion sound by blending the rumba of Southern France with the ancestral Indian raga tradition, celebrating and preserving global Romani musical culture.
Professional photographer Bob Carey established his career’s legacy through The Tutu Project, a series of humorous self-portraits created to support his wife Linda, which evolved into The Carey Foundation, dedicated to providing financial and emotional assistance to women battling breast cancer.
Jared Heyman is a successful serial entrepreneur who first founded the online survey company Infosurv, then used the trauma of his sister’s long medical journey to co-found CrowdMed for crowdsourced diagnoses, and now manages the venture capital firm Rebel Fund, which invests in top tech startups.