TEDx Skoll Conversations is a partnership of TEDx, the Skoll Foundation and The Wellbeing Project. Over the course of 2022, the partnership sought to surface new ideas on mental and physical wellness from TEDx groups across the globe.
Continuing the high standard of curation, three TEDxAtlantaWomen speaker alumnae were among the 15 showcased. The other TEDx groups selected to participate include Brazil’s TEDxSãoPaulo, TEDxKapiti located in the Southern Hemisphere, Denver’s TEDxMileHigh and TEDxUTAustin of Austin, Texas.
Check this for more about TEDx Skoll Conversations and the complete compendium of TEDx ideas on wellbeing.
Using data, Shivani Patel provided sobering insights into the striking public health disparities in certain communities and the factors that contribute to them.
Highlights of her talk were featured in the TEDx Shorts Podcast which is described as “eye-opening ideas from some of the world’s greatest TEDx speakers.”
Congratulations to TEDxAtlanta 2019 speaker alum Sara Valencia Botto! Her talk unveiling the initial results of an early childhood development study conducted at Emory University’s Infant and Child Lab was featured by TED on TED.com.
Since appearing on the TEDxAtlanta stage, Sara successfully graduated with her doctorate from Emory University and joined the university’s Psychology Department as a faculty member in 2020. Her publication on sensitivity to evaluation in toddlers has been featured in various outlets, including ABC News, the Huffington Post and other major international newspapers.
Her research on the developmental origins of reputation investigates when, how and why we care about what other people think. Her goal is to understand why we care about our reputation as well as the factors that contribute to inter-individual differences.