TRUTH: TEDxHeritageGreen Virtual Conference 2021

Session 1 | Moment of Truth: 1-3:30pm Friday, April 23
Session 2 | Naked Truth: 1-3:30pm Sunday, April 25
Session 3 | Gospel Truth: 1-3:30pm Tuesday, April 27

Times are EDT/UTC-4 🥳 Afterparty until 4pm

TEDxHeritageGreen (TEDxHG) is a brand new organization in Greenville, South Carolina, USA, and our inaugural conference will be held online in three separate sessions. These free gatherings will debut brand new TEDx Talks and enable our online community—in Greenville and beyond—to share, have fun, and engage in meaningful, actionable conversations. Join us!

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🔶 Vision
🔶 Conference
🔶 Presenters

Vision

TED and TEDx
TED is a global nonprofit organization devoted to ideas worth spreading. It began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost almost any topic you can imagine.

TEDx is a licensing program in which TED-like presentations are shared with local communities around the world. Each TEDx organization is unique, developing and executing their events independently.

TEDxHeritageGreen
TEDxHG derives its name and spirit from a long-established public resource in the heart of Greenville, SC—Heritage Green, a cultural campus that is a vibrant place of discovery, inspiration, creativity, and entertainment for Greenville County residents and visitors of all ages and walks of life.

Our new TEDx organization was born out of a desire to spark epiphanies in individuals and to aid understanding, empathy, and engagement among diverse groups of people—especially those who rarely, if ever, come together as equals in a psychologically safe environment.

Conference

Our overall conference theme is TRUTH, a motif which will take shape as a common thread—at times, abstract—within all our presentations. Many concepts and definitions of “truth” manifest within individuals, families, groups, teams, organizations, communities, states, nations, industries, societies, cultures, the world, and even collective human consciousness.

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Audience experience and interaction is key to our mission, so get ready for some small-group fun! At the end of each session will be a TRUTH AND DARE finale to encourage real-world action. Then at 3:30pm, you're invited to an afterparty!

AGENDA
(EST/UTC-5/Times subject to change.)
~12:40pm Zoom doors open / meet fellow attendees
~1:10pm PROGRAM BEGINS
~3:20pm TRUTH AND DARE FINALE
~3:30pm Optional afterparty, ending around 4pm

Presenters

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Session 1 | Moment of Truth 1-4pm Friday, April 23
Heather Brannon, MD, Physician / Practice Owner
A family physician who has been practicing for nearly 30 years, Heather realized that many patients who felt overwhelmed, anxious, easily frustrated, and tired actually had ADHD and that diagnosing it correctly and treating it was life-changing for those patients. She decided in 2014 to devote her entire practice to ADHD.

Derrick L. Quarles, Political Consultant / Non-Profit & Higher Ed Leader
Derrick is a leader in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, helping to build strategic partnerships, scale innovative solutions, and attract investment and innovation to US government programs. He is a PhD candidate at Jackson State University in Jackson, MS, and a social justice activist who founded the Upstate Black Lives Matter chapter six years ago.

Christopher S. Rice, PhD, Futurist
Chris is the founder and managing partner of Refuturing, where he leads foresight, strategy and research activities. As a futurist, ethnographer, experience designer, educator and political theorist, Chris’ work over the last 20+ years has explored the intersections of society, technology, economics, the environment and politics.

B-Roll is made up of artists Grey Thompson, Kimbi Tiez, Marty Epp-Carter, Keith Groover, and Phillip McCreight. As the old joke says: “a musician, an artist, a poet, a designer and a videographer all walked into a....” Zoom call! Each brought individual talents, and each listened to the others. Out of randomness came clear vision.

Team Resilience is a visually musical and moving menagerie of new friends — singer-songwriter Darby Wilcox, mixed-media artist Keith Grace, painter/designer Laura Blume, and choreographer Gina Buntz. From Zoom calls to house calls, the team created as individuals apart, then distilled their separateness into a collaborative collage of movement, color, and sound.

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Session 2 | Naked Truth 1-4pm Sunday, April 25
Yvonne Davis, Gang Intervention Coordinator
Eleazer Hunt, PhD PMP, Police Department Strategic Planner
Yvonne and Lee work for the Greenville Police Department and apply evidence-based strategies for the prevention, intervention, and deterrence of violence. Yvonne has worked on community concerns and gang intervention for over a decade. Lee has over two decades doing applied research in crime analysis and violent crime reduction.

Celeste Wright Harris, Lifestyle and Wellness Coach
Celeste is a mom, lifestyle & wellness coach, author, marathoner, bodybuilder, and senior human resources professional with over 20 years’ experience in people development, strategic implementation, leadership training, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Her mission is to influence others to hone their superpowers for continuous growth, both personally and professionally.

Scott Neumeister, PhD, Literary Scholar / Mythic Pathfinder
Scott is a literary scholar and author from Tampa, Florida, where he earned his PhD in English from the University of South Florida in 2018. His specialization in multiethnic American literature and mythology comes after careers as an information technology systems engineer and a teacher of English and mythology at the middle school and college levels.

Closing the Gap features the collective talents of choreographer Elizabeth Strong and I AM Strong Dance Company; singer-songwriter Brandy Lindsey; artist Elizabeth Kinney; violinists Stephen and Jeff Neil (aka, Synergy Twins); and artist/director Ric Standridge. Their creative energies were inspired by the children within their own team.

Just.Us.3 is comprised of painter/mixed-media artist Susan Sorrell, visual artist/designer Jonathan Underwood, and dancer/visual artist Megan Hannon—diverse collaborators who never would have met if not for this TEDxHG project. They came together to create a painting and to film an exuberant, avant-garde visual movement.

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Session 3 | Gospel Truth 1-4pm Tuesday, April 27
The Reverend Greg Dover, D.Min., Pastor
Delighted Tobehere, Drag Queen
Greg and Delighted are both Greenville natives. Greg is a Furman grad and pastor, Delighted is a Clemson alum and drag queen, and both are public figures — although in very different contexts! They are both committed to creating a more just and loving community.

Melody Stanford Martin, Author / Social Ethicist
Melody is a social ethicist, communications expert, and author of Brave Talk: Building Resilient Relationships in the Face of Conflict (Broadleaf Books, 2020). She is the Founder of Brave Talk Project and Founder & CEO of Cambridge Creative Group, a narrative marketing and design company specializing in non-profit outreach. Melody’s work focuses on rhetorical innovation, courageous community engagement, and out-of-the-box thinking to solve social problems.

Illusionaries is a collective of three artists — multidisciplinary performance artist MiiMii Beaulieu of PhysioMorph Fitness Arts, musician/teacher Jeff Holland of DRUM4WORK, and songwriter/producer Joel McCreight of Evan’s Dilemma. Their unique alchemy of music, rhythm, sound, performance arts, and visuals is designed to stimulate your senses.

While We Wait was formed when filmmaker Collins White, choreographer/dancer Vaughn Newman, and composer/musician Tom Wright were thrown together in a virtual room with a goal to CREATE.

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