TEDxPortland

“There were moments where I’ve been shot at. Moments where I’ve participated in hostage rescues. Situations where I’ve been able to successfully talk people off of highway overpasses so that they don’t jump. And as I think through all of these different scenarios I’ve been involved in, one negotiation, more than anything else, stands out as the most challenging, and these negotiations were the ones I had to have at home with my wife.”

- Ryan Dunlap, Year 14 Speaker, April 11, 2026

“A constructed improv around internal fears and weight I carry feeling like an outsider ~ inspired from my recent work, Inner Symphony. Our inner dialogue. Art lets us arrive. It’s where we get to come home.”

- Lauren Flower, Year 14 Performance, April 11, 2026

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