The Team


Gemma Scott
Team: Core Organizer, licensee
Favourite TED talk/moment: How Can We Eat Our Landscapes | Pam Warhurst
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? Cyborg


Veronica MacInnis
Team: Core Organizer
Favourite TED talk/moment: How great leaders inspire action | Simon Sinek
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? Eagle – to get a different perspective!


Diane Pereira
Team: Communications Lead
Favourite TED talk/moment: How to Find A Wonderful Idea | Ok Go
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? I'd like to be Chris Cornell's guitar


Linnaea Kershaw
Team: Communications Lead
Favourite TED talk/moment: Can Art Amend History? | Titus Kaphar
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A cat. So many naps and snuggles.


Magali Vander Vorst
Team: Communications
Favourite TED talk/moment: Inside The Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? Eagle – to get a different perspective!


Lisa Smessaert
Team: Speaker Team Lead, Green Team Founder
Favourite TED talk/moment: The Power of Vulnerability | Brene Brown
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A Dolphin


Mélodie Gerbier
Team: Speakers Team
Favourite TED talk/moment: What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith | Ingrid Betancourt
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A long distance migrating bird


Bill McMichael
Team: Speakers Team
Favourite TED talk/moment: How to Read the Human Genome and Build a Human Being | Riccardo Sabbatini
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A viable human zygote in Dr. Sabbatini's lab


Soh-yon Park
Team: Speakers Team
Favourite TED talk/moment: Inside The Mind of a Master Procastinator | Tim Urban
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? I would be the Ocean of our planet


Mel Bilko
Team: Green Team & Partnerships
Favourite TED talk/moment: How to Be a Great Leader | Derek Sivers
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? The Ocean


Janet Yip
Team: Partnership
Favourite TED talk/moment: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? Bird cause I want to be able to fly freely and swim freely


Amy swanton
Team: Post editing and marketing
Favourite TED talk/moment: the future of space exploration | Burt Rutan
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A turtle all the way


Sarah Whelan
Team: Audience Engagement
Favourite TED talk/moment: The Psychology of Your Future Self. | Dan Gilbert
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? If I weerent human I would be a cat living the life mild and free.


Christine Liu
Team: Catering, Design & Decor
Favourite TED talk/moment: Your body language may shape who you are | Amy Cuddy
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A panda that eats and sleeps every day.


Anna Fernandez
Team: Project Management Lead and Volunteer Management
Favourite TED talk/moment: My year of saying yes to everything | Shonda Rhimes
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? A spaceship


Ekaterina Ungvitskaya
Team: Project Management and Volunteer Management
Favourite TED talk/moment: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | Alain de Botton
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? Wind


Nadhirah Shukri
Team: Website Lead
Favourite TED talk/moment: How to build your creative confidence | David Kelley
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? I want to be a bird, so I can travel and fly to any place I want in the world.


Ynah Pantig
Team: Website
Favourite TED talk/moment: How Do You Define Yourself? | Lizzie Velasquez
If you weren't a human, what would you want to be? I think I would be part of the ocean