Waltham's TEDx Talk: 2017 Speakers

WALTHAM, MA – Waltham will host its own independently organized TEDx talk April 2 at Gann Academy. This year's theme, "blurring the lines between disciplines," welcomes educators from various feels to collaborate and create future global citizens.

Below is a look at the 2017 speakers.

Kathryn Boger, PhD, ABPP – Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Program Director for the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, Instructor at Harvard Medical School

Kathryn helped to develop and is the program director for the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP). MAMP is an outpatient, group-based program that is recognized as a regional leader in providing empirically-supported intensive treatment for children and adolescents, aged 7-19, with anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive disorders.

Jamie Byron – Farmer, Entrepreneur + Educator

Farmer and Founder of Grove, a Somerville based company building indoor gardening products that give people a connection to food and nature year-round in their homes.

Jennifer Greif Green, PhD; Melissa Holt, PhD – Bullying Prevention Lab at Boston University; Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology

Drs. Green and Holt co-lead the Social Adjustment and Bullying Prevention Lab at Boston University (www.bu.edu/bullying). In their TEDx talk, Drs. Green and Holt will describe innovative research on the complexities of identifying the “true” group of students who have been involved in bullying and the extent to which bullying is distinct from other violence in schools.

Joelle Renstrom – Lecturer of writing and research at Boston University, focusing on sci-fi, AI, and space

Joelle Renstrom's collection of essays, Closing the Book: Travels in Life, Loss, and Literature, was published in 2015. She maintains an award-winning blog, Could This Happen, about the relationship between science and science fiction. She’s the robot columnist for the Daily Beast and a staff writer for Now.Space. Her essays have appeared in Slate, Aeon, The Guardian, and others.

Christopher Robichaud, PhD – Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy

Christopher Robichaud is Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He received his doctorate in philosophy from MIT. His interests surround ethics, political philosophy, and social epistemology, with a focus on examining the role of truth and knowledge in well-functioning democracies, and on understanding what the post-truth age of politics is.

Waltham's TEDx talk will take place Sunday, April 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tickets are $25-$40.

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