TEDxAlcatraz - Robert King - Alone
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Robert Hillary King was the opening speaker for the inaugural TEDx Alcatraz. In this talk, "Alone," King takes us inside the mind of someone wrongly convicted of a crime, the consequence of which was an unfathomable 29 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Arrested as a member of the Black Panther Party in the 1960's,... Read more
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Robert King - Alone
March 30, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Robert Hillary King was the opening speaker for the inaugural TEDx Alcatraz. In this talk, "Alone," King takes us inside the mind of someone wrongly convicted of a crime, the consequence of which was an unfathomable 29 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Arrested as ...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Larissa Sand - A Modern Speakeasy
April 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Larissa Sand is principal of Sand Studios, a multidisciplinary architecture, interior design and lighting design office in San Francisco. The studio houses its own fabrication facility. At TEDxAlcatraz, Larissa walks us through her recent project creating a new kind of San Francisco medicinal mar...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Ari Derfel - Slow Money
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ari is an award winning entrepreneur, organic chef, activist, mountain guide & public speaker. His academic career includesthe University of Wisconsin, Harvard, Georgetown, UCLA, and Cambridge. Currently, Ari is the Executive Director of Slow Money, a national organization quickly gaining promin...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Rick Aubrey
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Rick Aubry is founder/CEO of New Foundry Ventures (formerly Rubicon National Social Innovations) "the laboratory for scaling social enterprise". He is on the Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty and, as of January 2011, is the assistant provost for social Innovation at Tulane University. ...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Kellie McElhaney - CSR 3.0
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Dr. McElhaney is the Alexander Faculty Fellow and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She launched this center in 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of th...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Melanie Nutter - The 21st century city ; how cities are embracing this new age
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Melanie Nutter is the Director of the San Francisco Department of Environment, which helps all San Francisco residents and businesses take an active role in protecting and enhancing the urban environment, produces and publicizes information on sustainable practices, and develops innovative and pr...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Julie Hanna - Bringing humanity to business, and business to humanity
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Julie Hanna is a serial entrepreneur that has been driven by her belief in information technology as a democratizing force for social, political and business disruption. She has spent the last twenty years pioneering products that have allowed tens of millions of people around the world to connec...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Judah Schiller - Engaging corporations for good
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Judah Schiller is co-founder and CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, a San Francisco based consulting firm focused on activating companies for good. Judah provides executive leadership across the spectrum of Saatchi & Saatchi S' employee engagement, internal communications, and sustainability/CSR platfor...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Eoin Harrington - Singing "Confess"
April 7, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and surrounded by music since the age of 4, Eoin Harrington has traveled the globe and now resides in San Francisco where his music is causing quite a stir. This award winning songwriter has grabbed the attention of numerous heavyweights in the bay area and acro...
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- -: TEDxPresidio - Robert Rosenthal - Investigative journalism in the 21st Century
April 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Before joining CIR in January of 2008 Rosenthal had done pretty much everything that could be done done in a newspaper: copy-boy, reporter, foreign correspondent, investigative reporting and executive editor. He did not have a ring side seat to the collapse of the newspaper business model, he wa...
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