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TED2017: The future you 4/20/17, 12:07 PM aclu.org T. Morgan Dixon Health activist T. Morgan Dixon is the co-founder and CEO of GirlTrek, inspiring nearly 100,000 neighborhood walkers. T. Morgan Dixon co-leads GirlTrek, the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States. GirlTrek encourages women to use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living, families and communities and knits local advocacy together to lead a civil rights-inspired health movement that seeks to eliminate barriers to physical activity, improve access to safe places to walk, protect and reclaim green spaces and improve the walkability and built environments of 50 high-need communities across the United States. Prior to GirlTrek, Dixon was on the front lines of education reform. She served as Director of Leadership Development for one of the largest charter school networks in the country, Achievement First, and directed the start-up of six public schools in New York City for St. Hope and the Urban Assembly, two organizations funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As the leader of GirlTrek, Morgan received fellowships from Echoing Green (2013), Ashoka (2014) and The Aspen Institute (2015). girltrek.org @GirlTrek Vanessa Garrison Health activist As COO of GirlTrek, Vanessa Garrison encourages African American women and girls to get out and take a walk. ‘Vanessa Garrison is the co-founder and COO of GirlTrek, the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States. With nearly 100,000 neighborhood walkers, GirlTrek encourages women to use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living, families and communities. Working with partners, GirlTrek has developed a world-class training for African-American women to serve as health professionals in the areas of fitness, mental health, nutrition, and environmental stewardship. Prior to GirlTrek, Garrison worked as a Program Coordinator for Our Place DC, a nonprofit organization that provides services to currently and formerly incarcerated women. In her work with GirlTrek, she's received fellowships from Echoing Green and The Aspen Institute and been named “Health Hero” by Essence Magazine. girltrek.org @GirlTrek Tuesday, April 25, 2:15PM - 4:00PM PDT TED en Espafiol: Conexion y Sentido Hosted by Gerry Garbulsky, TED en Espafiol showcases powerful ideas in Spanish. Join us in the Community Theater. (English translation will be available.) Gabriela Gonzalez Astrophysicist Gabriela Gonzalez is part of the collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists who measured for the first time the gravitational waves that Einstein predicted over 100 years ago. Over 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves -- ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic collision, like the merging of two black holes -- the LIGO Scientific Collaboration confirmed their existence using large, hyper-sensitive detectors in different parts of the world. As LIGO's former spokesperson and the person responsible for the collaboration of 90 international scientific institutions that the project entailed, Argentine astrophysicist Gabriela Gonzdlez announced the extraordinary discovery to the world in 2016. Arelentless curiosity about the universe led Gonzalez to astrophysics as a teenager. Over the course of her 25-year career, she has advanced the field of gravitational wave detection, working on both improving the sensitivity of interferometers and data analysis. She is the recipient of the E. Bouchet and the Jesse W. Beams awards from the American Physical Society, the B. Rossi prize from the American Astronomical Society, and the 2016 Scientific Discovery Award from the US National Academy of Sciences. She was the first woman to receive a full professorship in the physics department at Louisiana State University. phys.lsu.edu/faculty/gonzalez/ Jorge Drexler Musician, poet Jorge Drexler is a musician and the first Uruguayan to win an Oscar. His music plays with genre and influence, combining subtle harmonies and regional styles with electronic effects. Jorge Drexler doesn't lay claim to one identity over another. Born to a German-Jewish exile, Drexler grew up between Uruguay and Israel, traveled widely across Latin America, and eventually settled in Spain. Within his music, you can hear touches of milonga and bossa nova and even Bach, as his lyrics wrangle with notions of nationality and belonging, language, identity and love. https://ted2017.ted.com/program Page 6 of 21 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014956