The full collection of TEDxSavannah talks.

2024

One Small Thing To Do To Belong Anywhere

Jessica Leigh Lebos

Converging Lines: Redlining and Zoning in Savannah, Georgia

Briana Paxton

Why We Need DEI in Healthcare

Bonzo K. Reddick, M.D., M.P.H.

Citizenship: A Convergence of Cultures and Identities

Suzanne Kirk

5 Questions To Help You Find Work You Love

Bruce Feiler

Responsible AI Now For a Just Tomorrow

Elizabeth Adams

Seeding Justice: Food Access and Farmer Viability in Our Communities

Deidre Grim, Ph.D.

Building Bridges of Hope, Healing, and Reconciliation

Lillian Grant-Baptiste

InnerG

Temakha | Eric Winbush

Musicians

The Sound of Convergence

Savannah Trombone Choir

Musicians

The Importance of AI Literacy For All

Mike Kentz

Homes for All: Weaving Together Perspectives for a Thriving City

Christian Shellman

How Art Can Heal Our Oceans

Nina Samuels

How Animals and Humans Decide To Trust

Steve Hein

2023

Amazing Grace and Mass Incarceration

Rev. Guillermo A. Arboleda

Public Memory Matters

Kim Campbell

Bada$$ Balance – The Art of Receiving

Amy Capello

Embrace Empathy for You and Me

Candicee Childs, M.D., MHA, NASM-CNC, NASM-CPT

Drawing Connections

Brittany Curry

Where Have Our Shrimpers Gone?

Marc E. Frischer, Ph.D.

Foster Care Suicide Hotline: Permanency

Whitney Lam Gilliard

Connected Through Infrastructure

Michael Hughes, P.E.

Tips for Staying Married

Harrison Scott Key

How the Women’s Shelter Inspired Me

Jonalyn Lavarias

We All Cousins

Trelani Michelle

The Woeful Tale of Penny Pine: Building Resilience Through Community

Zoe Rinker

Interstitial Space: Why Designing the In-Between Matters

Meredith Stone

Building Community That Makes the World a More Just Place

Erika D. Tate, Ph.D.

Tenets of Time: The Short, the Long, the Messy

Tricia Veldman, M.S., CCC-SLP

The Sound of Connection

Tegan Miller & Assaf Gleizner

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

2022

Getting Back to Better

Bertice Berry, Ph.D.

Transforming Relationships & Creating Solidarity Through Food Justice

Mark Bowen

Microplastics: A Local Problem with a Local Solution

Jay Brandes, Ph.D.

Reintegration: A Paradigm Shift

Maxine Bryant, Ph.D.

Teaching Financial Literacy Through Personal Story-Sharing

Isai Castrejon

Why We Need to Talk About Disabilities

Mary Dillard

A Grandmother’s Love: A Forever Legacy

Chris Hanks

Words Matter

Wanda Lloyd

Confessions of an Ephemeral Party Girl

Mickie McNamara

Reframing the Coastal Resilience Narrative

Alex Muir

How RV Schooling Taught Me IQ, EQ and NQ

Wyatt Powers

How to Make Hearts Dance Again

Vira Salzburn

Coming of Age During COVID

The Deep Center

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

2019

The Triumphant Gift of Adversity

Caleb Brown

Victory for Veterans through Volunteering

Truck Carlson

Are Our Ideas of Community Destroying It?

Grace Sotomayor-Mantri

Southern Roots: Queer Horizons

Blake Rushing

Life Has No Limits

Jalin Alexander Graham

Summon the True Astronauts

Srikanth Raviprasad

Truth Speakin’, Healing and Reconciliation

Patt Gunn

The Southern Work Ethic and Houselessness: Why Hammers Do Not Build Houses

Josua Rine

Feeding the Future with Aquaponics

Heather Joesting

Heat, Behavior and the Parsley on Our Genomes

Luke Geiger

Moon River

Kim Michael Polote

Southern Sensibilities

Greg Parker

Finding Alice: Bridging the Gap in Preserving Family History

Tony Foy

My Love/Hate Relationship with the South

Fayth M. Parks

The American Dream Value Menu

Harrison Scott Key

Preserving Southern Moments in the Born-Digital Age

Wayne Willcox

The Garden of Good

Nola Blackwood

We Are Rising

Jessica Wallace McBride

Urban Mentoring Academy Drum Line

Urban Mentoring Academy

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

2018

Designing a Response to Fear of Public Speaking

Karla Jennings

History from the Bottom Up

Betsy Dominguez

What Story DO America’s Monuments Tell?

Alicia Scott

No Simple Answers

Amy Paige Condon

How a Rat Made Me a Better Human

Tina M. Nelson

Legacy by Disruptive Design

Ravi Gondaliya

Creating a Legacy for Women in Technology

Cynthia Harbor

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Super Intelligence

Max Howell

The Legacy of a Homeless Teen

Julie Wade

Don’t let the Baby Die!

Amanda Hollowell

Designing a Legacy of Inclusion & Diversity for the Differently Abled

Brian M. Hussey

In the Details

Karla-Sue Marriott

Finding Lola

William Gladden

Legacy in the Soil

Matthew Raiford

How Dying Can Teach About Living: Confessions of a Hospice Chaplain

Joseph Wadas

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

2017

Educators can make a difference

Quianna Lavant

Bridging the partisan gap

Tonya Bonitabus

Using Technology to Improve Disaster Recovery

Steve Riley

Policing the Bridge

Tim Mcmillan

Visually Documenting American Identity, Then and Now

Courtney McNeil

How Historic Street Pavement Modernized the City

Robin Williams

Eye contact has potential to change your life

Jessica Leavitt

Surviving the Suicide of Someone You Love

Timothy Mantooth

Grow Something Real

Stephen Lush

I speak for the bees

Ted Dennard

Uniting the world through volunteerism

Nipuna Ambanpola

The Next Mission: Life Beyond Military Service

Phil Gore

Julio’s Bridge to the Land of Make-Believe

J’miah Nabawi

The Mountaintop Ain’t Flat

Regina Bradley

A bridge to fuller living

Nick Oji

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

2016

Being Positive

Clinton Edminster

Human Impact Statements

Marc Roark

The Decision to be Right or Righteous

Weslyn Bowers

Let’s Do Mammograms for The Heart

Murem Sharpe

Simple Solution of Love

Peter Ulrich

How to Begin Again

Beverly Willett

What Does it Mean to Give Birth to an Idea?

Kelley Waldron

Sitting at the Table

Courtney Papy

Generations Meet in the Middle

Alexandra Trujillo de Taylor & Adam Turoni

Foreign Language of the 21st Century

Angelina Patel

How to Wage War on Education

Timothy King

Its the End of Water As We Know It

Seth Darling

Valuing Heritage

Justin Gunther

Challenging Your Situation

Semaj Clark

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

2015

Balance in Life

Carol Crofoot Hayes

Appalachian Dialect or Standard English? Place Is the Answer

Phoenicia Miracle

Tale of Two Boys

Jeremy Kaiser

How to Have a Good Conversation

Celeste Headlee

The Art of Balancing

John Carlyle & Katie Maurer

Coastal Georgia at the Crossroads

David Kyler

Fall in love with the World

Katheriin Liibert

The Ecosystem of a Community

Denise Grabowski

Juggling: The Power of Ups and Downs

Paul Miller

Balancing Artistry vs. Technology In Instrument Manufacturing

Howard Paul

Closing the Loop on Feedback

M Daniel Suwyn

Losing Your Assumptions

Carl Scott

A Project of Stewardship

Giselle Rahn

Questing: Spiritual Tool to Restore the Balance of Human and Being

Nigel Law

Let It Shine

Roger Moss

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

2014

Stories are Our Roots

Dottie Kluttz

Be a PEAR Brain

Rex Gale

Make the Impossible Possible

Ugochukwu Francis Okechukwu

Justice Denied — Why We Need an Office of the Ombudsman

Howell W. Woltz

Design Thinking for Every Endeavour

Robyn Richardson

The Library of the Future

Melanie Florencio

School of Rock

Jaime McGrath

How to Stop Our Buzzing Brain

Eva A. Bowman

The Connecting Power of Music

Mike English & Rachelle Abney

America 6.0

Kevin Klinkenberg

How I Define My Beauty

Camilla Meshiea Sheehan

The Evolving Identity of a First Generation American

Somara Theodore

Love and Basic Color Theory

Kolby Harrell

The Transformative Museum

Harry DeLorme

Creative Confidence

Jody Espina

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

2013

Happiness Through Engaging Activities

Marc Garnier

Finding Happiness

Juwan Platt & Donovan Woods

Hacking Away to Happiness

Josh Nichols

10 Minutes to Happiness

Ja-Nae Duane

Local and Sustainable Food

David Lake

Happiness through Trees

Chris Gerards

Encouraging Happiness in Our Children

Catherine Killingsworth

Child’s Play

Bob Clagett

Stranger Induced Happiness

Amy Drew

The Happiness of Driving

Murray Wilson

If You’re Happy and You Know It…

Paul Little II

Finding Happiness Through Humor

Robert Haas

A Meaningful Life

Tracy Brisson

Visualizing Community

Mary Siceloff

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

2012

Recreating Myth, A Critique on Chinese Authority

Zhenjie Dong

The Meaning of Generosity

Nikki Kala Lee

The Order of Disorder

Tom Hardy

Why the Real Estate Crash is Good for the Future of America

Kevin Klinkenberg

Hack Your World

Kevin Lawver

The Artistic Deconstruction of Business

Christopher Plummer

Riddimic Harmony

David Pleasant

Square Roots: Life on Telfair Square

Enoch Hendry

Beautiful Justice

Beth Mount

Speaking On

J. Carlos Santamarina

Producers as Partners: Enabling a Thriving Community Food System

Catherine Compton

The Future Will Not Be Multiple Choice

Andrew Davies & Jamie McGrath

Five Ideas That Bring Our Schools into the 21st Century

Mark Finnern

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

2011

Idle

Blake Ellis

Systems and Processes

Jenn Taylor

Modern Medicine

Dr. Paul Bradley

The City is Human

Christian Sottile

Foodscape

Erin Fenley

Social

Ian Leslie

Sign of the Times

Tom Kohler

F**k You

Abraham Lebos

Hallelujah

Abraham Lebos

Halo

Abraham Lebos

Sculpted

Andrew Scott

Historic Inspiration

Jonathan Rabb

Work Life

Jim Donnelly

Coastal Journey

Imk Lass

Life Story

Diana Keough

The Work Buffet

Peter Bregman

Map Your Story

Robert Batchelor

The Moth

George Dawes Green

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

2010

Playing With Labels

Andrew Davies

Is It Safe? Designing a Culture of Patient Safety

Marty Scott

Film as Education

Emery McGaha & Ross Marnock

Designing Creative Youth

Tony & DaVena Jordan with Ciara Campbell

eWaste and the Social Landfill

Murray Wilson

Making Healthy Food Available to All Citizens

Teri Schell

My Dog Tweets: Bringing Personality to Twitter

Sloane Kelley

Telling Stories in a Transmedia World

Kevin Human

Dumpster Diving at American Universities

John Bacon

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Jonathan Feldman

Ideas Stimulated by Extreme Events

David Frost

Improvisation for Cultivating Sustainable Creativity

Michelle James

The Brain as a Framework for Change

Dan Suwyn

Asking Why: Creating Curious Teachers

Catherine Killingsworth

The Phenomenon of Synthesis

Jon Kolko

The Matrix of Creativity

Frank Spencer

Where There’s a Will

Michelle Berryman