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Unveiling the TED Fellows program
Greetings TEDsters --
It's my pleasure to share with you the first "Great Unveiling" of TED2009: our new TED Fellows program. At TEDGlobal 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania we were struck by the remarkable conversations and collaborations inspired by the 100 fellows who attended. We saw the founding of several companies, including Black Star Line SA by speaker Herman Chenery- Hesse and TEDGlobal fellow June Arunga; the emergence of new NGOs such as Ushahidi.com, founded by Fellows
Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and Ory Okolloh; and U.S. TEDsters setting up offices and hiring a TED Fellow in Tanzania. Scientists met with artists and designers, tech bloggers spoke with environmental activists, and filmmakers bonded with economists. Those exceptional people continue to write Africa's "Next Chapter."
Since then we've been seeking a way to bring the TED Fellows' passion, energy and the ideas worth spreading to every TED conference, with the hope that their world-changing ideas and proven potential will meld with the talent and experience of the TED community.
Introducing TED Fellows, our new international program that will bring 50 eclectic, up-and-coming world-changers to our Long Beach and Oxford conferences each year. Twenty of those fifty will be invited back, starting the next year, as TED Senior Fellows, joining the community for a three-year term including six conferences. All TED Fellows will receive special benefits including pre-conference programs, training from world-class communications
professionals, the opportunity to give short TEDTalks at TED University, the opportunity to spread their ideas on TED.com, a private social network and more. Of course, TED will cover their conference fees, travel and lodging.
We're targeting individuals aged 21-40 from all of TED's many disciplines, including of course, technology, entertainment and design but also science, humanities and the arts, entrepreneurs, NGOs and political and community leaders. We're focusing on candidates from five regions of the world: Africa, Asia/Pacific, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. However, anyone 18 and over is welcome to apply. The first application cycle begins February 23rd, 2009.
Meet our first 40 fellows here. The complete list is also at the bottom of this email. If you'd like to read more about them, you can download a PDF of the TED Fellows Program Guide.
These men and women were selected for their achievement but especially for their promise. Each of them shows real potential to create positive change in their field -- whether it's technology, entertainment, design, music, art, science, business or the NGO community -- in their country, and even around the world.
I would like to thank the Bezos family, the Harnisch Foundation and Nokia for their visionary inaugural support of the program, with in-kind participation from TED friends Kodak, Livescribe, Lynda.com, ONE.org and SubscriberMail.
There are many opportunities for TEDsters to get involved and contribute. If you're interested in participating, have questions or comments or would just like to learn more about the program, please email [hidden email]. Find more information at www.ted.com/fellows
Warmly,
Tom Rielly
TED Community Director
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Meet the TED Fellows, TED2009 (Long Beach, CA)
Adrian Hong: Director of The Pegasus Project; founder and former Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea. Korea/U.S.
Alexander MacDonald: NASA economist; Ph.D. student, Oxford. U.S./U.K./Canada
Ana Gabela: Ornithologist studying human impacts on Galapagos; Avian Disease Coordinator, state of Hawaii. Galapagos/U.S.
Andriankoto Ratozamanana: Cofounder of MEGASEEDS; reforestation activist. Madagascar
Awa Marie Coll-Seck: Executive Director of Roll Back Malaria Partnership; former Health Minister of Senegal. Senegal
Bola Olabisi: Founder of Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network; Nigeria/U.K.
Bright Simons: Cofounder of mPedigree – anti-pharmaceutical fraud technology solutions for Africa and India; Development analyst with multi-award winning think-tank. Ghana
Colleen Flanigan: Fine artist – metals sculptor who applied metallurgy techniques to coral reef reconstruction; armaturist for Henry Selick's 3D stop-motion feature film Coraline. U.S.
Daniela Candillari: Pianist; Fulbright Scholar. Slovenia/U.S.
Darius Weems: Duchene Muscular Dystrophy activist; subject of Logan Smalley's documentary Darius Goes West; rapper. U.S.
Erik Hersman: Cofounder of Ushahidi.com – a site providing online visualization of conflict areas; blogger for Afrigadget.com and White African; organizer, Maker Faire Africa. Kenya/U.S.
Esther K. Chae: Actor/playwright – her one-woman show explores a North Korean spy and the attempts to unmask her; Yale Drama alum. Korea/U.S.
Faisal Chohan: Co-Founder of BrightSpyre.com – leading jobs portal in Pakistan today that has set the foundation of internet business in Pakistan. Pakistan
Gerry Douglas: Founder of Baobab Health – an NGO creating eHealth systems to address health care crises in the developing world with particular emphasis on HIV care and treatment. Malawi/U.S.
Jane Nordli: Musician; educator. U.S.
Jennifer Brea: Writer and blogger; Ph.D. student at Harvard; writing a book on Chinese migrants in Africa and African migrants in China. U.S.
Joshua Wanyama: Founder of Pamoja Media – the first African online advertising network; founder of African Path – an African Huffington Post. Kenya/U.S.
Joy Sun: Global health activist; student, Stanford Business School. U.S.
Juliana Machado Ferreira: Conservation geneticist using genetic markers to track and interdict illegal songbird trafficking; setting up Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Brazil. Brazil
Juliana Rotich: Cofounder of Ushahidi.com – a site providing online visualization of conflict areas; blogger, Environmental Editor of GlobalVoices. Kenya/U.S.
Juliette LaMontagne: Educator; Founder of youth art activism program; Curriculum consultant for innovation and school reform. U.S.
Katrin Verclas: Mobile trends analyst and founder of Mobileactive.org – a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. U.S.
Karen Baptiste: Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow researching the intersection between environmental psychology, environmental justice, and resource management; Fulbright Scholar. Trinidad/U.S.
Kyra Gaunt: Ethnomusicologist; vocalist; author of The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-hop (2006). U.S.
Logan Smalley: Duchene Muscular Dystrophy Advocate; documentary filmmaker, Darius Goes West. U.S.
Lucas Welch: Founder of Soliya – an NGO promoting understanding between young leaders in the U.S. and the Muslim world. U.S.
Mohammad Tauheed: Architect; Founder of ArchSociety.com – an online community for architects. Bangladesh
Oliver Hess: Co-Director Materials and Applications, principal infranatural; creator of interactive public art projects and social/spatial experiments. U.S.
Patrick Awuah: Founder and President of Ashesi University. Ghana
Philip Niles: MD/MBA student; AIDS activist with Volunteer Kenya; Consultant for the Flying Eye Hospital in Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam. U.S.
Pragnya Alekal: Activist, environmental engineer; former X-Prize consultant for the developing world. India/U.S.
Rommel Feria: Educator; Java, Mac and open source activist. Philippines
Rye Barcott: Marine Corps Captain; Founder of Carolina for Kibera; Student, Harvard Business School/Harvard Kennedy School. Kenya/U.S.
Sara Mayhew: Mangaka (manga artist). Canada
Sean Gourley: Physicist/military theorist; Rhodes Scholar. New Zealand
Sheila Ochugboju: Operational Director of Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network; science educator. Nigeria/U.K.
Sophal Ear: National Security professor, Naval Postgraduate School; Cambodia Scholar – his family escaped the Khmer Rouge and survived when his mother posed as Vietnamese, a story she recounted to him for the New York Times. U.S./Cambodia
Taghi Amirani: Iranian physicist turned documentary filmmaker, has filmed the Taliban and NASA scientists; his most recent film, Red Lines and Deadlines, profiles Iran's reformist journalists for PBS. Iran/U.K.
Tin Ho Chow: Design student, RISD; former Singaporean military officer; founder of a national humanitarian design conference. Singapore/U.S.
Yatin Sethi: Design researcher for Ashoka-Youth Venture; Cofounder of Pankhudi Foundation which aims to benefit underprivileged children in India. India/U.S.
Program Contact:
Logan McClure
Program Coordinator, Community [hidden email]
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