The TEDxBuffalo team is pleased to announce the rest of the lineup for TEDxBuffalo 2015: Illuminate.

Rebecca Sophia Strong

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About: With a masters-level background in the social sciences, Rebecca Sophia Strong is a social artist, movement educator and Founding Director of The Embodied Cosmology Project. Rebecca brings the 13.8 billion-year scientific timeline to performance art through a piece she wrote called “Cosmogenesis: The Story of Us.” She also works to bring the body back into education through a movement- and arts-based non-formal science curriculum of the 13.8 billion-year journey. She has been working from the premise that as we deepen our understanding of and alignment with the creative and historical 13.8 billion-year track record of the universe and Earth, we will become more intelligent and innovative shapers of the future.

Web: embodiedcosmology.org

Rhonda Frederick

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About: Rhonda Frederick, MPA, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of People Inc., a leading not-for-profit health and human services agency providing programs and services to more than 12,000 people with special needs, their families and seniors throughout Western New York. With an operating budget of $143 million and 3,400 employees, People Inc. has assisted individuals to achieve greater degrees of independence and productivity since 1971. Frederick joined the agency as a direct care staff member in 1980 and rose through the ranks to become agency’s president and CEO in October 2014.


Meet all of the 2015 speakers here.

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