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Meet the TEDxBemidji leadership team

TEDxBemidji is coordinated by volunteers who love our community.
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John Andringa
Production Team Lead
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Jim Bensen
Community Leadership Engagement Lead
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Cailey Birchem
Lead Designer

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LaVon Dennistoun
Marketing & Communications Lead, Curation Team
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Tiffany Fettig
Community
Partnerships Lead

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Sachel Josefson
Experience Team Lead, Curation Team
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Keila McCracken
Community Activation Lead, Curation Team
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Samantha Nienow
Co-organizer &
Curation Team Lead
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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
  • Karl Bleser, Logistics Support​
  • Karin Harrison, Social Media Lead​
  • Jane Hastig, Ticketing Support, Social Media Team
  • Aaron Johnson, Event Music Team
  • Kevin Johnson, Website Guru
  • John LaTourelle, Lead Photographer

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, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today's leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED's annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free, on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Monica Lewinsky, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.
TED's open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from thousands of volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed; the annual million-dollar TED Prize, which funds exceptional individuals with a "wish," or idea, to create change in the world; TEDx, which provides licenses to thousands of individuals and groups who host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; and the TED Fellows program, which selects 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.
Apply to be a Speaker
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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.
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