TEDxMSJC Announces 2021 Theme and Speaker Presenters
6/4/2021
Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) will host its annual TEDxMSJC event organized by students, faculty and staff on Friday, Oct. 22, online via YouTube.
MSJC's TEDx program will feature seven speakers of varying backgrounds for this year's event: “Resilience.” The theme aims to highlight ideas and initiatives that aid the community in persevering during challenging times.
"More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic started – and as the stay-at-home order begins to lift and people slowly step back into the world – we've heard about how they got through the COVID pandemic,” said Bianca Swan Finch, Chair of the Department of Theatre for Mt. San Jacinto College, who is a lead organizer of the event. “Therefore, we have focused this year's theme on these stories within our community. Through the trials of 2020, our community truly showed remarkable resilience.”
Scheduled speakers include:
- Dr. Katherine Kiefer-Newman, San Bernardino Valley College Faculty
- Julie Falen, KCAA Radio Host - Julie Talks Money
- Stephanie Otero, CPA, President and CEO of Feeding America Riverside and San Bernardino Counties
- Angelica M. Anderson, Honors Enrichment Program Administrative Associate
- Dr. Lillian Yvette Melendrez, Idyllwild Arts Academy
- Von Lawson, Mt. San Jacinto College Dean of Career Education
- Brandon Christopher Allen, Motivational Speaker – “When Thunder Speaks”
Learn more about the TEDx event and speakers online.
For more information, please contact Communication Studies and Forensics Associate Professor Ron Newman at rnewman@msjc.edu or TEDxMSJC Organizer Chairman Kenneth Powell at kenallpowell@gmail.com.
Mt. San Jacinto College serves about 27,000 students annually in a district covering 1,700 square miles from the San Gorgonio Pass to Temecula, with campuses in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning and Temecula.
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