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Ideas alone cannot change the world. They require a courageous community ready to listen carefully and do the work of translating ideas into action and change. They require us to see beyond the status quo and question what else is possible. They beckon us to challenge the spaces where injustice exists, and to build new systems. Ideas alone cannot change the world, but they give rise to everything.
A new time is unfolding. It is asking each of us to rise.
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SPEAKER SESSION I Sarah Kurnick Amber McReynolds Theo Wilson George Wittemyer
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SPEAKER SESSION II Alan Brooks Dominique Christina Sarah Tuneberg Vio the Violinist *Speakers listed in alphabetical order.
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RISE SPEAKERS
R. Alan Brooks COMIC BOOK WRITER
R. Alan Brooks teaches writing for Regis University’s MFA program and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He created & wrote the graphic novels, “The Burning Metronome” and “Anguish Garden,” and hosts the popular “MotherF**ker In A Cape” Podcast, which focuses on marginalized members of the geek world. He writes a weekly comic, “What’d I Miss?,” for The Colorado Sun, and has written comic books for Pop Culture Classroom & Zenescope Entertainment. Alan is a musician and stage host, regularly emceeing events like the DINK Awards Show & Arise Music Festival. @R_Alan_writes
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Dominique Christina PERFORMANCE POET
Dominique Christina is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family’s legacy in the Civil Rights Movement and by the idea that words make worlds. She is the author of four books and a writer/actor for the HBO series High Maintenance Season 2. Her fourth book “Anarcha Speaks” won the National Poetry Series award in 2017. DominiqueChristina
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Sarah Kurnick ARCHAEOLOGIST
Dr. Sarah Kurnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She specializing in the ancient Maya and her research focuses on the creation, perpetuation, and negation of institutionalized social inequality. Her primary interests include the role of the past in shaping the present and how archaeology can foster positive social change. Since 2014, she has codirected a community archaeology project at the site of Punta Laguna in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. She lives in Boulder with her dog, Hazel. CuBoulderAnthropology
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Amber McReynolds VOTING RIGHTS EXPERT
Amber McReynolds is one of the country’s leading experts on election administration and policy, and co-author of the book When Women Vote. Amber is the CEO for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and is the former Director of Elections for Denver, Colorado. During her time there, she transformed the elections division into a national and international award-winning office. She has a Masters in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors in Political Science and Communications from the University of Illinois. @AmberMcReynolds @VoteAtHome @WhenWomenVote
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Sarah Tuneberg DISASTER RELIEF EXPERT
For over a decade, Sarah Tuneberg worked in public health & emergency management in places like South Sudan and post-Katrina New Orleans. She is the Co-Founder & CEO of Geospiza. In 2020, she was tapped by Governor Polis to lead Colorado’s Coronavirus Innovation Response Team. The team is ramping up mass testing, creating services to help all Coloradans stay safe and healthy at home, developing local alternatives for constrained medical supplies, and developing technologies to help track the spread of the virus and support infected citizens. SarahTuneberg hellogeospiza
Theo E.J. Wilson PERFORMANCE POET
Theo E.J. Wilson (aka Lucifury) is a founding member of the Denver Slam Nuba team, which won the National Poetry Slam in 2011. He began his speaking career in the N.A.A.C.P. at the age of 15, and has always had a passion for social justice. Wilson is Executive Director of Shop Talk Live, Inc., an organization that uses the barbershop as a staging ground for community dialogue and healing. In 2017, he published his first book, The Law of Action. His TEDxMileHigh talk, “A black man goes undercover in the alt-right,” has over 10 million views online. Theo.Wilson.31
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George Wittemyer WILDLIFE CONSERVATIONIST
George Wittemyer is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the African elephant and the Chairman of the Scientific Board of Save the Elephants. He is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. He was appointed to the IUCN’s African Elephants Specialist Group in 2008 and is a technical advisor to the Kenya Wildlife Service. His research group focuses on biodiversity conservation issues, with an emphasis on determining how landscape, human, and climate impact at-risk wildlife. @GeorgeWittemyer
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Homies Unidos Homies Unidos works to end violence and promote peace in our communities through gang prevention and intervention; the promotion of human rights in immigrant communities and the empowerment of youth and families in El Salvador, Denver, and Los Angeles to achieve their full potential in a just, safe and healthy society. Thank you to past TEDxMileHigh Speaker, Gerardo Lopez, for his leadership of Homies Unidos Denver. They are living proof that prevention works and that peace is possible. LEARN MORE >
National Right to Vote Institute National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) is dedicated to making sure every American can vote in secure, safe, accessible, and equitable elections by expanding vote-at-home systems in all 50 states. NVAHI works with election officials in optimizing their administration processes and governing laws for both mail ballot and in-person voting methods. Thank you to TEDxMileHigh Speaker, Amber McReynolds, for your leadership of NVAHI. LEARN MORE >
Find out how FEMA works to build more resilient communities across Colorado. FEMA works closely with local and state partners to help people before, during, and after disasters. Only together will we be able to build a culture of preparedness and resiliency. Explore our virtual exhibit and learn how you can support a more resilient Colorado.
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Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds. - Rumi Mindfulness Session Manifest tranquility with a combination of breath-based movement and grounding meditation. Give the spine and hips relief to counter the posture that occurs during screen time, as we embody the idea of connection through this guided meditation and movement. Our host, Courageous Yoga, is a BIPOC and queer-led traumainformed community that aims to provide identity-affirming safe spaces that honor the roots of yoga and other indigenous healing modalities with sincere practices of non-harm, truthfulness and courage.
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