Theme: Explore the Unknown

TEDxLFHS is a TEDxYouth event designed to highlight LFHS students, teachers and innovative thinkers that have ideas worth spreading. The event places a strong emphasis on empowering young people in Lake Forest, area schools, and around the world. TEDxLFHS 2022 premiered on March 16, 2022.

Lake Forest High School
1285 North McKinley Road
Lake Forest, Illinois, 60045
United States

Alia Attar

Student

Alia Attar is a junior at LFHS and is excited about speaking on the TEDxLFHS stage for the first time! She is involved with many clubs, like Special Olympics and EmbRACE, and she also represents the Human Rights Club as president, where she focuses on advocacy and outreach surrounding civic matters. Alia joined TEDxLFHS this year to share the importance of protest fashion throughout history, and its influence on expression in our world today. In addition to fashion and design, Alia is passionate about writing, music, and reading, and hopes to pursue a career in education in the future.

Brady Gamrath

Student

Brady Gamrath is a sophomore at Lake Forest High School, and he is excited to be participating in the TEDxYouth event this year. In his free time, Brady enjoys 3D printing various models, design, and business. He is also very passionate about urban planning and architecture. He is especially interested in the improvement of our built environment. At Lake Forest, Brady participates in Model UN, Scholastic Bowl, Volleyball, as well as TEDxLFHS. He is very grateful to have this opportunity to speak and hopes people enjoy the event!

Gabriella Swerdlin

Student

I am a junior at Lake Forest High School. I have a lot of love and value for the culture and religion my parents have passed down to me, and a large part of my outlook and perspective on life comes from that. I think it is extremely important for people as a whole to work on truly thinking for themselves, because when they don't, extreme violations of humanity can take place. I am thankful for people and activities that challenge me and force me to grow like discussions with my brother, parents, and friends, dancing, and giving a TEDx talk.

Katy Beranek

Student

Katy Beranek is a current Junior at Lake Forest High School who enjoys meeting new people and making connections all over the world. Over quarantine, Katy started an environmental group, Water Solutionaries (a teen environmental group that focuses on water problems across our globe), where she learned how to communicate with people in Africa, New York, and even Canada. She has gotten a chance to experience their individual cultures and is eager to share them with all of you. When she isn’t on zoom calls you can find her hiking to see sunrises all over the midwest.

Madeleine Kapsalis

Student

Madeleine is a senior at Lake Forest High School who is thrilled to be giving a TEDxLFHS Talk this year! She is very passionate about religious acceptance, so she started the Religious Diversity Club at school and founded her own website, www.ifteens.org (Interfaith Teens), where she receives presentations across the country from teens thoroughly explaining their religions. Madeleine is actively involved in various activities such as being a co-captain of Speech Team, president of French Club, and a cast member of the school musical Newsies. She also enjoys dancing ballet, playing piano and violin, writing her own novels, and spending quality time with her siblings.

Max Yates

Student

Coming soon!

Saige Joseph

Student

Saige Joseph is a junior and is thrilled to be back for her second year at TEDxLFHS. At school she participates in theatre and is a part of the speech team. In her free time she enjoys listening to 80s music and watching movies, especially any Wes Anderson movie. She is excited to be talking about becoming pescatarian and how that choice made her who she is today. She can't wait to share her experience and would like to thank everyone involved for all of their support.

Sarah Mack

Student

Coming soon!

Tally Feingold

Student

Tally Feingold is a junior at Lake Forest High School and is so excited to be involved in TEDxLFHS for the first time this year! At school, she is involved in LFHS theatre as a director and an actor, and she is also a co-captain of Speech Team. She is very passionate about words and learning languages and spends her free time studying them. She also enjoys trying as many new things as possible whether that be through course selection, travel, or clubs. She is so grateful to have the opportunity to share some significant ideas and values that have shaped her life!