Tag: Pat Mitchell

I just returned from giving a talk at the first ever TEDWomen in Washington, DC. It was an amazing two days, and I wrote about it today on my blog. There you will find a slide show of many of the speakers and of the exhibit I curated. Many thanks to Pat Mitchell for inviting me to speak at what for me was a life-changing event.  And I met some amazing people.  My hope is that this will bring more awareness to the issues concerning women, and also increase  the number of speakers who are women at TED conferences in the future. I also wrote a blog for The New Yorker on my talk.

TEDWomen Conference

I met Pat Mitchell, head of the Paley Center, last year. She is a  warm, engaging, creative powerhouse, and I am so pleased to have become friends with her. She invited me to participate in the first TEDWomen conference she, The Paley Center and TED are producing December 7th and 8th in Washington, DC. I am curating an exhibtion of international cartoonists on the subject of women, tenatively called: The Folly, Fun and Flexibility of Women. I also am scheduled to give a short talk in the first session.

Here is an interview with Pat on Huffingtonpost.

It’s about ideas. It’s not an exclusive event for women!