TEDx Monterey

iLead+Design: Summer Youth Program iLead+Design is a two-week summer intensive program for high school age youth in the Monterey and Salinas areas. Small impact teams use Design Thinking and Social Innovation to tackle community issues with real-world problem solving. Now in its fifth year.

Does parenthood make us better stewards of our planet? Is there hope for an overpopulated Earth? In her TEDxMonterey talk, Sheril Kirshenbaum suggests that what matters most is how we choose to live.

Sheril also recently published an article for the Atlantic that re-frames the prospect of raising a family in a world with a global population of 9 Billion: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/having-kids-wont-destroy-the-planet/370798/

Rethinking Population: Sheril Kirshenbaum at TEDxMonterey

The human capacity for language and communication across cultures is breathtaking! In what may be the first tri-lingual TEDx talk, professional conference interpreters Barry Olsen, Laura Burian and Miguel Garcia demonstrate the craft of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation while working with colleagues Weihao Zhang (Chinese) and Beatriz Rodriguez (Spanish).

More Than Words: Laura Burian, Miguel Garcia and Barry Olsen at TEDxMonterey

How are you supposed to "lean-in" when you are already maxed out? In this thought-provoking talk about women and work Katrina Alcorn seeks to further the conversation started with Sheryl Sandberg's call to action for women, to a discussion about a society that leans in to parenting.

Maxed Out: Changing the Conversation about Women and Work: Katrina Alcorn at TEDxMonterey What happens when you lean-in and fall right over? Author and mother Katrina Alcorn was juggling a fast-paced dream job and motherhood until the day she just...