On October 15th, TEDxYale will present its fifth annual flagship conference. Through the theme, Mind the Gap, audience members will explore solutions to the barriers, disparities, and incongruities within themselves, among communities, and across the world.
Speakers range from economists, musicians, and health-journalists to engineers, crime-fighting philosophers and tech CEOs. Our mission is to connect the world’s best ideas with the Yale-New Haven community.
Christine Gross-Loh – The Atlantic, Huffington Post
Christine Gross-Loh is a journalist and author. Her most recent book is The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, coauthored with Professor Michael Puett. The Path, a New York Times and international bestseller, is being published in more than 25 countries, including the US (Simon & Schuster) and the UK (Viking). Christine is also the author of Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Things Parents Around the World Can Teach Us. She writes on history, education, philosophy, and global parenting and has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and the Guardian, among others. She has a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD from Harvard University in East Asian history.
James Hamblin – The Atlantic
James Hamblin is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. He hosts the video series If Our Bodies Could Talk, for which he was a finalist in the Webby awards for Best Web Personality. He is a past Yale University Poynter Fellow in journalism, and he has lectured at Harvard Medical School, Wharton Business School, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and SXSW, among others. His writing and videos have been featured in/on The New York Times, Politico magazine, Bon Appétit, Comedy Central, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, New York, and The Awl, among others. Time named him among the 140 people to follow on Twitter and Greatist named him among the most influential people in health media.