Theme: HOPE --- A Recipe for Hope!

Tell us how you've stayed hopeful during a specific situation, or generally in this time of uncertainty. For example, you could share your strategies to remain optimistic or explain how you motivate others to do the same. Other speaking tracks could include your hope for the future regarding yourself, your community, or the world.

TEDxURI
Richard E. Beaupre Building, 140 Flagg Rd.
Kingston, RI, Rhode Island, 02881
United States

Adina Lundy

Adrina Lundy is from Brownsville, Brooklyn. She earned a Master’s in Developmental Psychology from Harvard and is a lecturer here at the University of Rhode Island where she teaches human development, women and psychology, and multicultural psychology. Her research intersects at college degree completion for demographics underrepresented in higher education, the ways in which social capital is tethered to that effort, and, the criminalization of poverty vis a vis the foster care removal paradigm. As a restaurateur, after earning the baccalaureate, she provided employment, exclusively, to felons returning home.

Amelia Randolph Campbell

Amelia Randolph Campbell, CEO, and Founder of ARC, Inc. is a certified Speaker with The Big Talk Academy and alum of the Speaker Salon in NYC. She spent over a decade performing as a stage and screen actor, based in New York, followed by years in Leadership and Sales Coaching, and has taken her two unique careers to create a platform that elevates the personal development experience for leaders, positive disruptors, influencers, and communicators. Her book, currently in development, and subsequent courses empower people with her groundbreaking methodology to interrupt and completely reimagine behavioral habits, releasing all limits on life.

Burr Harrison

Burr Harrison is a performer, storyteller, tinkerer, artist-engineer, writer, actor, gardener, ally, wedding officiant, project manager, and program manager living in Cranston Rhode Island. He is a ceaseless encourager and family man who enjoys friendships with people of all generations. He likes things that fly, canoes, science toys, science education, quahogging, and the study of the relationship between humans and their technologies. He is amazed by the force of love, arguably our single most important superpower. He does all of this imperfectly and with great enthusiasm and quite often with unearned confidence, and what he doesn’t know he makes up.

Dawn Mallozzi

Dawn Mallozzi is becoming an inspirational speaker one step at a time. At age 16, Dawn was involved in an accident, which she views as the gateway to the opportunity of a lifetime. She has spent the last 3 years of her life dedicating herself to the art of public speaking by sharing her story with schools across the state. In her free time, Dawn enjoys watching TED and TEDx talks for inspiration, teaching art classes, and spending time with her family.

Douglas Creed

Douglas Creed, a Professor of Management at the University of Rhode Island. Most of his research has looked in some way at issues of workplace diversity and organizational change processes for greater inclusion and equity. In the late 1990s, he conducted award-winning research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees’ grassroots efforts to end workplace inequities based on sexual orientation and gender identity. His current research focuses on the challenges associated with multi-stakeholder collaboration across societal fault lines (such as inequality based on class or race) in addressing city resilience challenges.

Dr. Richard Booth

Dr. Richard Booth is a clinician at Brown University and private practice. He serves on the executive board of the Village Green Charter School and is a core member of The Wellness Collaborative, an interdisciplinary collective working towards improving health and wellness in underserved communities. In private practice, he provides consultation, workshops, professional development, focused programming, and therapy. He was born in Jamaica, moving to inner-city Boston, where he spent his formative years. Dr. Booth was selected for a four-year MacArthur Foundation-funded Youth Mental Health Fellowship through Harvard University at the Judge Baker Children’s Center.

Elaine Nadal

Elaine Nadal is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominee, as well as the author of two poetry chapbooks: When and Sweat, Dance, Sing, Cut, published by Finishing Line Press. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Haunted Waters Press, Hoot Review, Grasslimb, and Latino Book Review Magazine.

Kalliana Marek

Kalliana Marek is a 16-year-old high school graduate with vast experience in climate advocacy. Through her involvement with multiple organizations, including, but not limited to, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, the Climate Reality Project, and the Sunrise Movement, she has gained experience working in both community-based and professional settings. As Chief-of-Staff for RI State Senator Cynthia Mendes, she has seen how politics can be transformed to fit the needs of all people, not just a select few. With plans to use future studies and careers to help better link those in the Statehouse to those with the work and life experience needed to create meaningful, beneficial legislation. She looks forward to leading a life dedicated to serving my community.

Rosie Savage

Rosie Savage is a self-proclaimed hope dealer & life and relationship coach. She is a proud USN Veteran, mother of five, and grad student at Columbia University.

Sarah M. Kipp

Sarah M. Kipp is an educator, coach, and professional development specialist. Since 2006, Sarah has provided training and education to adult learners in the areas of writing, presenting, and communicating. Sarah works with kind, courageous leaders, executives, educators, and entrepreneurs who are committed to making a greater impact in their world through communication and connection. Sarah is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Science in Deaf Education and is a doctoral candidate in the field of Human Development and Learning.

Wesley Cabral

Wesley Cabral, was born in Cape Verde and moved to the United States at nine years old. Recently graduated from The University of Rhode Island with a degree in Communications Studies and a minor in Business. Involved in many organizations at URI such as Resident Assistant and Alternative Spring Break Trip Leader. In the future, he wishes to start his own business and give back to the community.