More 2022 Speaker Announcements

September 16, 2022

Three More Speakers Announced

Here's another batch of great people and interesting content.

TJ Hobbs - Community Fridges: An Accessible and Scalable Form of Mutual Aid

This talk explores the nature of mutual aid in a community, manifested via the concept of "community fridges" - working outside of governmental systems to provide both food and hygiene supplies without limitation or paperwork.

Scott Sopata - Support-and-Comfort: A New Form of K9 Policing

What do we think about when contemplating working police dogs? A drug or bomb sniffing K9 officer? A dog trained to apprehend dangerous suspects? Newly-added to those well-known canine policing specialties, is the K9 officer who is a therapy dog

Monica Anderson - What Dentistry Teaches us About Curbing Racism

The speaker, a licensed dentist of 33 years and a Black female, has experienced many forms of discrimination and diagnosed thousands of diseased teeth. Tooth decay is a disease that is preventable through early education before bad habits develop Likewise, racism should be seen not as an attitude, but as a disease that can, and should be addressed at an early age.