Hey TEDsters, Artist Drue Kataoka created “A Small Step” to commemorate the first ever TEDx Berkeley: Doing the Unprecedented. In the spirit of TED, the meaning of the painting is up to you the viewers and TEDxsters. It’s a bear in a space suit, walking on the moon, but what does that mean? This original [...]

Robert Strong has been crisscrossing the world since 1985 entertaining audiences large and small, young and old, formal and casual, and everything in between! Recently voted “San Francisco’s Funniest Prop Comedian,” “The Bay Area’s Best Performer,” and “San Francisco’s Best Comedian,” Robert has appeared on CBS This Morning,performed for the United States Congress, and taken his [...]

Nanxi Liu has studied piano since she was 6 years old and loves all genres of music. As a member of Cal Community Music, Nanxi enjoys playing music with fellow Berkeley students and hopes to collaborate with more students on campus. Last summer, Nanxi was a volunteer piano teacher and believes that every student should [...]

Drue Kataoka is a modern artist based in Palo Alto, CA. Her artistic vocabulary incorporates both the refined techniques of her ancient Zen art form of Sumi-e and cutting-edge conceptual innovations inspired by life in Silicon Valley. Drue’s original works are sought after by discerning collectors and investors in Silicon Valley and around the globe. [...]

Asma Abbas teaches Politics and Philosophy at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She received her doctorate in Political Theory and Social Thought from the Pennsylvania State University, on the heels of an M.A. in liberal studies at the New School for Social Research, and an MBA at the Institute of Business [...]

In March of 2009, Eric submitted the winning proposal to UC Berkeley’s Bears Breaking Boundaries Curricular InnovationContest with the course “The Economics of Philanthropy.” The proposal beat out twenty-seven other proposals from graduate and undergraduate teams, taking home $5,000 for project implementation. The proposal came to fruition in January 2010 as an upper division course [...]

The UC Men’s Octet is an eight member a cappella singing group comprised of some of the finest male singers at the University of California, Berkeley. Founded in 1948, the Octet has entertained audiences around the world with its unique mesh of close harmonies and zany antics. Dazzling fans with wide repertoire of barbershop, doo-wop, [...]

Dacher Keltner received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department in [...]

What can a stroke tell us about brain development and communication? How can brain-computer interfacing reduce surgery time? What can a blind man avoiding obstacles in a room tell us about vision and consciousness? Bradley Voytek (ketyov.com) is completing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the role of brain [...]

What can a stroke tell us about brain development and communication? How can brain-computer interfacing reduce surgery time? What can a blind man avoiding obstacles in a room tell us about vision and consciousness? Bradley Voytek (ketyov.com) is completing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies the role of brain [...]