Theme: Age of Amazement

We are excited to announce our fourth TEDxYouth@EB. This year’s theme is AGE OF AMAZEMENT. The event will include student speakers, adult speakers, experiences, and an art installation, all designed to encourage and inspire our students to consider the amazing age we live in.

TEDxYouth@EB is free and open exclusively to all EB middle school students.

Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley
1009 Heinz Avenue
Berkeley, California, 94710
United States

Alec Loustau

EB student class of 2020.

Alexandra Kozlova

EB student class of 2020.

Charlotte Carmany

EB class of 2019.

Clarissa Mure

EB student class of 2020.

Eli Marienthal

Outdoor Educator and Guide + poet

Eli Marienthal runs Back to Earth, a wilderness guiding and outdoor education organization based in Oakland, California. This organization works with young people to develop practices of personal development and self care through a culture of peacemaking and thanksgiving. Eli is a lifelong learner and educator. He is trained through The Tracking Project in Corrales, New Mexico, a non-profit led by John Stokes devoted to peacemaking, nature awareness and cross cultural respect. He is a NOLS alumnus and a certified Wilderness First Responder. Eli is also a poet, dancer, songwriter and spoken-word performer. He was a first generation Youth Speaks poet, and was (maybe still is) the youngest member of a winning Brave New Voices National Slam Team, as well as the youngest to win the Bay Area Slam. He continues to perform original work, sharing with audiences his distinctive voice of gratitude.

Erin Kirby

EB class of 2020.

Gaspard Choquet

EB student class of 2019.

Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb

Wildlife Conservationist

Over the last twenty years Jean-Gaël “JG” Collomb has been involved with addressing issues at the interface between wildlife conservation and development. At the World Resources Institute, he developed the Central African branch of Global Forest Watch, an non-governmental organization network-pairing field based information with remote sensing data to monitor logging companies. In Gabon with the Wildlife Conservation Society he helped the development of national parks and ecotourism. JG now serves as the Executive Director of the Wildlife Conservation Network. Originally from Paris, JG has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary ecology from the University of Florida with a concentration in tropical conservation and development, and studied the effects of tourism on people’s well being around protected areas in northeastern Namibia.

Leyla Akcaoglu

EB student class of 2020.

Margot Saulnier

EB student class of 2020.

Sasha Privat

EB student class of 2020.

Stella Pfeifer

EB student class of 2020.