Theme: RE: Think, RE: Imagine, RE: Create

Gather with us for one hour each night, from 5 - 6pm PDT August 10 - 13, for powerful conversations, featuring inspiring performances, interviews, and audience participation. No speakers on red carpets talking to large theater audiences. Instead, join us online as we dig deep into the hearts and minds of these extraordinary presenters and activate the power of possibility in each of us. Our world is changing in ways we never imagined. It’s calling for us to change as well. TEDxSanDiego is answering that call with innovative new virtual programming featuring a slate of impactful presenters and performers, all answering some of the biggest questions on our minds today.

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Box of Beats

Recording Artist, Song - Writer and Live Performer

Box of Beats is a Recording Artist, Song Writer and Live Performer from Los Angeles, CA. Box of Beats creates musical compositions live on stage using nothing but his mouth, his voice, and a loop station. He is pioneering the a cappella industry trying to bring it into the mainstream market

Dr. Edith Eva Eger

Clinical Psychiatrist and Author

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2020 from 5 - 6pm PST: A native of Hungary, Edith Eva Eger was just 16 years old in 1944 when she experienced one of the worst evils the human race has ever known. As a Jew living in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe, she and her family were sent to Auschwitz, the heinous death camp. Now, Dr. Eger is a sought after clinical psychologist and lecturer, helping individuals discard their limitations, discover their powers of self renewal, and achieve things they previously thought unattainable. Using her past as a powerful analogy, she inspires people to tap their full potential and shape their very best destinies. Her book, The Gift, Twelve Lessons to Save your Life will be released in September 2020.

Elizabeth White

Author, Activist

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2020 from 5 - 6pm PST: We have Work to do. Join our conversation with Elizabeth White as she talks about the Black Lives Matter movement, why she's hopeful and why she says "we all have bricks that we can use to build with or to disrupt and destroy." How willyou use your bricks? An interview followed by a moderated conversation with the audience. Elizabeth White, author of 55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal , (Simon and Schuster 2019) is an aging solutions advocate for older adults facing uncertain work and financialm insecurity. When she could not find a book that met her needs during her own bout of long term unemployment, she wrote it herself. She wrote it as a 62 year old woman who has lived the stories she describes, and as a Harvard MBA, former retail entrepreneur, and C suite executive who never expected to land here.

Gill Sotu

Artistic Director TEDxSanDiego

Gill Sotu, a navy veteran, multi-faceted poet, playwright, musician, DJ and performing artist. Also, a two time Grand Slam Poetry Champion, two time Raw Performing artist of the year, and a three time TEDx San Diego presenter. A teaching artist and a commissioned playwright with The Old Globe Theatre, program director and teaching artist with Intrepid Theatre, as well as Artist In Residence at Makers Church. Gil has been commissioned to produce original pieces for leading arts and community organizations such as: The San Diego Symphony, The Unity Way of San Diego County, Feeding America, SD Fringe Fest, and the San Diego Opera and may others.

Gregory Shepard

CEO, Entrepreneur, Author, Activist

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2020 from 5 - 6pm PST: What's your Pandemic Pivot? Gregory Shepard managed his way through crisis after crisis since childhood. The skills you’ve picked up in life, whether running a business or managing a family don’t necessarily equip you to cope with catastrophes. Greg's identified four key steps to help you to survive a financial crisis. Greg’s talk will be followed by a moderated conversation with the audience.Greg Shepard did not let growing up poor, autistic and dyslexic stop him. Instead, he used fearless optimism and steadfast determination to become a successful Author, Speaker, and Angel Venture Capital Investor. He works now to spread “Altruistic Capitalism” using Silicon Valley’s deal making culture as a vehicle for increasing the liquid flow of capital to the world. Greg leads an effort to use startup deal making to inject capital into the hands of fearlessly ambitious, creative and passionate young entrepreneurs looking to spark positive change.

Lee Coulter

Singer, Songwriter, Musician, Performer and Activist

Lee Coulter's soulful acoustic performances and powerful songwriting have landed him a #1 single on iTunes Australia and New Zealand. Coulter was also named Sirius XM’s Coffee House’s “discovery of the year.”

Rhonda Magee

Professor of Law at USF, Author of: The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2020 from 5 - 6pm PST: What’s Love Got to do With This? And what about rage, grief and despair? How practicing Revolutionary Mindfulness may be the key to emotional agility, hopeful connection and political action with others in times of darkness. An interview followed by a moderated interactive discussion with the author of “The Inner Work of Social Justice.” Law Professor Rhonda V. Magee is an internationally recognized thought and practice leader who integrates mindfulness into higher education, law and social change work. She has dedicated her life to healing and teaching in ways that support others in a journey to wholeness and justice. A prolific author, Rhonda draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act and live better together in a rapidly changing world.