Selected to further our diversity work, the following TED talks are offered to help us reflect on and engage in conversation of how we understand ourselves and others.
The videos will play from this page. To see and read the corresponding transcripts, use the associated hyperlinked text. Access to a transcript may help you select your sentence, phrase, and word for our discussion in the fall. You are invited to add your sentence, phrase, and word in the comment section below as you watch and reflect. (Please be sure to include the title of the talk in your comment.)
Angélica Dass: The Beauty of Human Skin in Every Color
iO Tillett Wright: Fifty Shades of Gay
Yassmin Abdel-Magie: What Does My Head Scarf Mean to You?
Vernā Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Norman Spack: How I Help Transgender Teens Become Who They Want To Be
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don’t have one true calling
Aimee Mullins: The Opportunity of Adversity
Sarah Kay: If I Should Have a Daughter
Clint Smith: How to Raise a Black Son in America




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