
Video Credits:
Artwork and Animation by Mark Lambert fromĀ Digital Oven
Speakers

Ryan Abrahamsen
Founder, Terrain 360

Emily Erb
Artist

Erin Thomas-Foley
Director of Education, SPARC

Terry Brown & Gordon Stettinius
Photographers

Dr. Joel Levine
Planetary Scientist

Brig White & John McAdorey
Advertising Creatives

Tim Hickey
Writer & Tangier Island Explorer

Will Baker
CEO, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Lucinda Scala Quinn
Editorial Director, Food & Entertaining, Martha Stewart Living | Author, Mad Hungry

Trip Jennings
National Geographic Filmmaker, Conservationist

Courtney Ferrell
Creativity Consultant

David Bailey
Founder, Arrabon

Dr. Ram Bhagat
Founder Drums No Guns, Richmond Youth Peace Project

Jessica Rathbun-Cook
LGBTQ Advocate

Dr. Michael Bishop
PhD, Member of GWAR

Joi Marshall
Music & Life Coach

Micah White
Founder, RCJC Has Talent

Laura Akesson
Science Educator

Yewande Austin
Executive Director, Change Rocks Foundation

Anne Holton
Virginia Secretary of Education

Jeff Fernandez
E-Learning Entrepreneur

Alex Mejias and Rashad Lowery
Multicultural Performers

Ellen Cockerham
Executive Director, Classical Revolution RVA

Brandon Farbstein
Performer and Motivational Speaker
About the Event
On April 10, 2015 we hosted TEDxRVA : UNCOMMON at the historic Carpenter Theatre at CenterStage.
Uncommon disrupts the common. It unravels old conventions, remembers the forgotten, overlooked and excluded. Uncommon allows us to have different conversations about different moments in different ways.
The speakers this year explored the rare, the extraordinary . . . the uncommon.