The full collection of TEDxSavannah talks.

2023

Amazing Grace and Mass Incarceration
Public Memory Matters
Bada$$ Balance – The Art of Receiving
Drawing Connections
Where Have Our Shrimpers Gone?
Foster Care Suicide Hotline: Permanency
Connected Through Infrastructure
Tips for Staying Married
How the Women’s Shelter Inspired Me
We All Cousins
The Woeful Tale of Penny Pine: Building Resilience Through Community
Interstitial Space: Why Designing the In-Between Matters
Building Community That Makes the World a More Just Place
Tenets of Time: The Short, the Long, the Messy
The Sound of Connection

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2022

Getting Back to Better
Transforming Relationships & Creating Solidarity Through Food Justice
Microplastics: A Local Problem with a Local Solution
Reintegration: A Paradigm Shift
Teaching Financial Literacy Through Personal Story-Sharing
Why We Need to Talk About Disabilities
A Grandmother’s Love: A Forever Legacy
Words Matter
Confessions of an Ephemeral Party Girl
Reframing the Coastal Resilience Narrative
How RV Schooling Taught Me IQ, EQ and NQ
How to Make Hearts Dance Again
Coming of Age During COVID

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2019

The Triumphant Gift of Adversity
Victory for Veterans through Volunteering
Are Our Ideas of Community Destroying It?
Southern Roots: Queer Horizons
Life Has No Limits
Summon the True Astronauts
Truth Speakin’, Healing and Reconciliation
The Southern Work Ethic and Houselessness: Why Hammers Do Not Build Houses
Feeding the Future with Aquaponics
Heat, Behavior and the Parsley on Our Genomes
Southern Sensibilities
Finding Alice: Bridging the Gap in Preserving Family History
My Love/Hate Relationship with the South
The American Dream Value Menu
Preserving Southern Moments in the Born-Digital Age
The Garden of Good
Urban Mentoring Academy Drum Line

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2018

Designing a Response to Fear of Public Speaking
History from the Bottom Up
What Story DO America’s Monuments Tell?
No Simple Answers
How a Rat Made Me a Better Human
Legacy by Disruptive Design
Creating a Legacy for Women in Technology
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Super Intelligence
The Legacy of a Homeless Teen
Don’t let the Baby Die!
Designing a Legacy of Inclusion & Diversity for the Differently Abled
In the Details
Finding Lola
Legacy in the Soil
How Dying Can Teach About Living: Confessions of a Hospice Chaplain

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2017

Educators can make a difference
Bridging the partisan gap
Using Technology to Improve Disaster Recovery
Policing the Bridge
Visually Documenting American Identity, Then and Now
How Historic Street Pavement Modernized the City
Eye contact has potential to change your life
Surviving the Suicide of Someone You Love
Grow Something Real
I speak for the bees
Uniting the world through volunteerism
The Next Mission: Life Beyond Military Service
Julio’s Bridge to the Land of Make-Believe
The Mountaintop Ain’t Flat
A bridge to fuller living

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2016

Being Positive
Human Impact Statements
The Decision to be Right or Righteous
Let’s Do Mammograms for The Heart
Simple Solution of Love
How to Begin Again
What Does it Mean to Give Birth to an Idea?
Sitting at the Table
Generations Meet in the Middle
Foreign Language of the 21st Century
How to Wage War on Education
Its the End of Water As We Know It
Valuing Heritage
Challenging Your Situation

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2015
Balance in Life
Appalachian Dialect or Standard English? Place Is the Answer
Tale of Two Boys
How to Have a Good Conversation
The Art of Balancing
Coastal Georgia at the Crossroads
Fall in love with the World
The Ecosystem of a Community
Juggling: The Power of Ups and Downs
Balancing Artistry vs. Technology In Instrument Manufacturing
Closing the Loop on Feedback
Losing Your Assumptions
A Project of Stewardship
Questing: Spiritual Tool to Restore the Balance of Human and Being
Let It Shine


Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2014

Stories are Our Roots
Be a PEAR Brain
Make the Impossible Possible
Justice Denied — Why We Need an Office of the Ombudsman
Design Thinking for Every Endeavour
The Library of the Future
School of Rock
How to Stop Our Buzzing Brain
The Connecting Power of Music
How I Define My Beauty
The Evolving Identity of a First Generation American
Love and Basic Color Theory
The Transformative Museum
Creative Confidence

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2013

Happiness Through Engaging Activities
Hacking Away to Happiness
10 Minutes to Happiness
Local and Sustainable Food
Happiness through Trees
Encouraging Happiness in Our Children
Child’s Play
Stranger Induced Happiness
The Happiness of Driving
If You’re Happy and You Know It…
Finding Happiness Through Humor
A Meaningful Life
Visualizing Community

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2012

Recreating Myth, A Critique on Chinese Authority
The Meaning of Generosity
The Order of Disorder
Why the Real Estate Crash is Good for the Future of America
Hack Your World
The Artistic Deconstruction of Business
Riddimic Harmony
Square Roots: Life on Telfair Square
Beautiful Justice
Producers as Partners: Enabling a Thriving Community Food System
The Future Will Not Be Multiple Choice
Five Ideas That Bring Our Schools into the 21st Century

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2011

Systems and Processes
Modern Medicine
The City is Human
Sign of the Times
Historic Inspiration
Coastal Journey
Life Story
The Work Buffet
Map Your Story

Please note: Prior to 2016, the TEDxSavannah event was licensed as TEDxCreativeCoast.

2010

Playing With Labels
Is It Safe? Designing a Culture of Patient Safety
eWaste and the Social Landfill
Making Healthy Food Available to All Citizens
My Dog Tweets: Bringing Personality to Twitter
Telling Stories in a Transmedia World
Dumpster Diving at American Universities
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Ideas Stimulated by Extreme Events
Improvisation for Cultivating Sustainable Creativity
The Brain as a Framework for Change
Asking Why: Creating Curious Teachers
The Phenomenon of Synthesis
The Matrix of Creativity
Where There’s a Will