The Lavin Agency is proud to present a selection of TED Fellows—a collective of innovators whose groundbreaking work in technology, design, social justice, science, and other fields is making way for a better tomorrow.
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Nina Tandon TED Fellow and Tissue Engineer
Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells—techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments.
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Candy Chang TED Senior Fellow & Urban Space Artist and Designer
Candy Chang is an artist, designer, and urban planner who makes cities more comfortable for people. A Senior TED Fellow, Chang is passionate about redefining the ways we share information in public space to improve our neighborhoods. The Atlantic calls her recent work, Before I Die, “one of the most creative...
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Jessica Green Director of The Biology and Built Environment Center and TED Senior Fellow
A TED Senior Fellow, Jessica Green uses non-traditional tools—like art, animation, and film—to help people visualize the invisible world of microbes, and understand the hugely important role they play in every facet of our lives. In visually stunning and eye-opening talks, Green shows us a geometric-driven approach...
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Robert Gupta Founder of Street Symphony, TED Senior Fellow and Mental Health Advocate
Robert Gupta is a violinist whose interest in neurobiology and mental health issues has made him a world renowned advocate for the redemptive and regenerative power of music. A TED Senior Fellow, Gupta directs the organization Street Symphony—a free classical music concert series for the unaided mentally-ill...
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Sean Gourley TED Fellow and Founder of Quid
TED Fellow Sean Gourley has three passions in life: physics (such as self-assembled quantum nanowires), politics (he once ran for a national elected office in New Zealand) and technology (he is the founder of one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley). A Rhodes scholar, Gourley's spent the past decade using...
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Shalini Kantayya Filmmaker, Eco-Activist, TED Fellow
Brooklyn-based filmmaker, educator, and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya uses film as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. Her futuristic sci-fi flick about the world water crisis, A Drop of Life, won Best Short at Palm Beach International, a Crystal Dior Nomination at Tokyo Short Shorts, and was...
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Juliette LaMontagne TED Fellow, Founder of Breaker
TED Fellow Juliette LaMontagne is pushing education further—outside of the classroom. A former New York City high school teacher, LaMontagne is the founder of Breaker, a social innovation program in which "legions of underestimated young people with new insights to old problems” use design solutions and entrepreneurial...
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Naomi Natale TED Senior Fellow and Founding Artist of One Million Bones
An installation artist and photographer, Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones—a large-scale social arts practice that fuses education and hands-on artmaking to raise awareness of genocide occurring worldwide, at this very moment. A TED Senior Fellow, Natale speaks internationally on the topic...
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Mitchell Joachim TED Fellow and Urban Designer
Architect and designer Mitchell Joachim tackles the urban issues redefining our built environments and cities: his work boldly reassesses the way humans live together in the 21st Century. In mind-bending talks, Joachim envisions a future in which biology and architecture are a single discipline—and shares the...
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Jane Chen Co-founder and CEO of Embrace & TED Fellow
Jane Chen is saving millions of lives with an incubator that sells for 1% the traditional cost. Chen is the co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise that develops disruptive healthcare technologies that empower the disadvantaged. Her mission is to create "innovations that represent a new trend for technology: simple,...
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