TEDxTacoma 2014: Theatre on the Square: Friday, February 28, 3:00-9:00 pm
TEDxTacoma speaker Korbett Mosesly of the Northwest Leadership Foundation has years of experience in youth advocacy work and is highly engaged in many grassroots efforts related to poverty, education, and the juvenile justice system. He’ll speak on the topic of diversity and inclusion in community development.
Tickets to TEDxTacoma are available here: http://bit.ly/TEDxTacoma2014
Korbett Mosesly is Director of Communication and Strategic Development at the Northwest Leadership Foundation in Tacoma, WA. He has over eight years of professional communication and outreach experience, and is an expert consultant specializing in website development, social media integration, and cloud-based project management. Korbett received his Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Evergreen State College with an emphasis on public policy and is currently working on his Masters in Public Administration.
He is a long-time member of the Pierce County Black Collective, Tacoma Urban League, and a Senior Fellow for the American Leadership Forum. Korbett is a Palmers Scholar and recipient of the 2012 Allen AME Unity Day Award.
He has served on the City of Tacoma’s Human Service Commission and Gang Assessment Community Taskforce; as well as a number of community efforts related to disproportionate minority contact. Korbett had the opportunity to spend two years working to help develop a collaborative resource center for young adults ages 16-24 aimed at connecting young adults with the resources needed to reach their educational and career goals.
Mr. Mosesly continues to be involved in youth advocacy work and is highly engaged in many grassroots efforts related to poverty, education, and the juvenile justice system. He believes that the best way to learn something new is to intentionally seek out people with very diverse perspectives and ask questions. Korbett is passionate about community involvement and bringing together diverse perspectives to find new approaches to solving old problems.
About TEDx
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. TEDx has been 4 times hosted in Tacoma and it is called TEDxTacoma, where x=independently organized TED event:
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world’s leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Two major TED events are held each year: The TED Conference takes place every spring in Long Beach, California (along with a parallel conference, TEDActive, in Palm Springs), and TEDGlobal is held each summer in Edinburgh, Scotland.