TEDxChange is a partnership between TEDx and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that is devoted to ideas worth spreading in the areas of global health and development. The TEDxChange team works with TEDx organizers around the world to help facilitate meaningful discussions within their communities on topics such as vaccines, polio, malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal and newborn child health, and agricultural development. The TEDxChange initiative also includes a series of global signature events curated by Melinda Gates and broadcast across the TEDx community. Speakers: Melinda Gates, Jeff Chapin Sven Giegold, and artist Alias.
TEDxSantaCruzChange will feature a webcast of the TEDxChange presentations from Berlin and live speakers from Santa Cruz.
Speakers:
Carmel JudRising InternationalFounder & Executive Director
From an early age Carmel Jud did daring things. At age 15 she was living on her own, and after dropping out of high school she founded an award-winning advertising and market research firm. In the 20-year history of the company, Carmel lead CJCG from a start-up to working with fortune 500 companies.
In 2002, Carmel did another daring thing: she gave up her successful business and launched a non-profit organization. Rising International is the first non-profit to use the home party business model to contribute to solving poverty. This model is used by for-profit companies such as Avon and Tupperware, but rather than selling plastic or make-up, Rising International sells crafts made by the world’s poorest people – women. In addition, Rising trains under-employed women in the U.S. to run their own Rising Home Party businesses.
Today Rising works with women in 27 countries. Part of its mission is to focus on areas of the world where it’s the hardest to be alive as woman.
Carmel’s innovative idea for alleviating poverty using the direct sales model has been featured in the press both locally and internationally including Huffington Post’s Greatest Person of the Day. She is also one the proud recent recipients of the 2012 Woman of the World award.
Peter LaugharnFirelight FoundationExecutive Director
Peter Laugharn assumed the Executive Director position at Firelight in July 2008. For the six years before that, Peter served as Executive Director of the Netherlands-based Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF), a private foundation that funds and shares knowledge about work in early childhood development and children’s rights. Before taking the helm of BvLF, he served as the Foundation’s Director of Programs.
Peter worked for more than 11 years in a variety of roles for Save the Children USA, with much of his extensive experience focused on Africa. As Save the Children’s Deputy Director in Mali, Peter helped develop the “Village Schools” model, which promoted access to basic education, girls schooling, and community participation. He was later Save the Children’s West Africa Area Director and then Education Adviser for Africa, providing technical assistance for programs in 10 countries.
A graduate of Stanford and Georgetown Universities, Peter holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of London. He was also a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 1982 to 1984. Currently a member of the Council on Foundations International Committee, Peter is also co-chair of the Inter-Agency Task Team on Children and HIV and AIDS. TEDxSantaCruzChangeApril 8, 1 – 4 pmCruzio Internet, 877 Cedar Street, Suite 150, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Cost: $5 general admission, $3 for students, Free for CruzioWorks membersPre-Registration is required using the button below. Please arrive on time. Unused seats will be sold at the door on a first-come, first-served basis.