Meet the TEDxBemidji leadership team

TEDxBemidji is coordinated by volunteers who love our community.
John Andringa
Production Team Lead
Jim Bensen
Community Leadership Engagement Lead
Cailey Birchem
Lead Designer
LaVon Dennistoun
Marketing & Communications Lead, Curation Team
Tiffany Fettig
Community
Partnerships Lead
Sachel Josefson
Experience Team Lead, Curation Team
Keila McCracken
Community Activation Lead, Curation Team
Samantha Nienow
Lead Organizer &
Curation Team Lead
Tammy Schotzko
Co-organizer &
Logistics Team Lead

A special thanks to our support team

It takes many hands to make a TEDx event happen. We'd like to recognize folks in our community who are contributing behind the scenes to make TEDxBemidji happen. Want to get involved? Fill our our volunteer application form.
  • Cate Belleveau, Artist Advocate, Curation Team
  • Anna Carlson, Student Engagement Advocate
  • Karin Harrison, Social Media Guru​
  • Jane Hastig, Ticketing Master
  • ​Heather Johnson, Writer & Editor
  • Nina Johnson, Student Engagement Advocate

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

ABOUT TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

Follow TED on Twitter at twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TED.

Do you have an idea that you'd like to share on the TEDxBemidji stage? The curation team accepts applications year-round. Fill out our speaker application. You can also nominate a speaker you feel has a powerful idea that our community needs to hear.
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This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED. TEDxBemidji is located in the beautiful northwoods of Bemidji, Minnesota, the first city on the Mississippi River.

Do you want to get involved? Fill out our volunteer application and let us know how you'd like to help.