TEDx Hendrix College

TEDxHendrixCollege2013

The Human Story: How Narratives Shape Our Lives

Regardless of our station in life, occupation, or history, we all share one story: the Human Story.  The speakers for our third TEDxHendrixCollege event will discuss their stories, how people have affected them, and how they have in turn affected others.

Speaker Lineup 2013

Drew Cameron

In 2004, Drew Cameron had just returned from a nine-month deployment as a field artillery soldier in Iraq when he took one of Drew Matott's papermaking workshops at the Green Door Studio in Burlington, Vermont. Cameron had studied Japanese Paper with his father in Iowa (who studied under Tim Barrett). Cameron took over the management of the Green Door Studio in 2006. As he pursued his degree at the University of Vermont, he became involved with Iraq Veterans Against the War and developed the Warrior Writers Workshop with Lovella Calica and Aaron Hughes. Cameron expanded Mattot's street performance papermaking intervention concept into making paper with veterans out of their uniforms.  In 2007, Cameron cut his old uniform from his body and made paper from it. He shared the paper with his veteran friends who responded by giving him their old uniforms. He then began hosting informal papermaking workshops at the Green Door Studio.

The Combat Paper Project, founded in 2007 by paper and book artist Drew Matott and soldier-turned-artist Drew Cameron, is a nonprofit organization that conducts workshops around the country teaching military veterans how to make paper by hand from their old uniforms. The labor-intensive process - the uniforms are literally beaten to a pulp and turned into a variety of paper art forms - is meant to give veterans a vehicle to tell their personal stories of military service.

Regina Hays

Regina has been teaching high school math and science for 10 years.  The past 3 years have been at Pulaski Academy, an independent college preparatory school in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Her course subjects have included Calculus, AP Statistics, Physics, Chemistry and Intro to Engineering.
This year, Regina started the PA Robotics Club which recently competed in the nationally recognized FIRST Robotics Ultimate Ascent Competition in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Prior to her teaching career, Regina was employed by the Department of the Navy for 9 years as a Calibration and Test Engineer responsible for the evaluation and calibration of many Navy programs and systems including lasers and night vision goggles.
Regina currently holds a Master of Arts Degree in Mathematics Education from the University of Central Arkansas and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Houston Hughes

Houston was introduced to poetry slam in 2006, and by 2010 had made finals stage at the Individual World Poetry Slam, placing him among the top 12 performance poets in the world. In the time in between, he won individual recognition at the 2008 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational tournament, led the Hendrix College team to win the Region 12 championship in 2009, and was part of the Ozark Poetry Slam team for 2 years. In 2012 he helped lead the group that put on 2012s wildly successful Individual World Poetry Slam. He has toured across the country and opened for a variety nationally known acts such as Saul Williams and Otep. He currently resides in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he serves as slam master and emcee for the poetry slam and variety show Fayetteville Word Wars.

Karl Heinbockel

Karl Heinbockel is the Director of Analytics at Little Rock Urban Farming, collecting data and records on farm activity and sales in addition to farming and assisting with various consulting work. While at Hendrix College, Karl studied Environmental Studies, completed internships at the Nature Conservancy and the Delta Garden Study, and developed a strong interest in sustainable food. Since graduating from Hendrix in 2012, he has interned at a Viridian - a sustainable building consulting firm - and Little Rock Urban Farming.
Karl loves food and thinks it deserves full attention: where it comes from, how it was produced, how the workers who produced it are treated, the nutritional value, how resource intensive is it, how to cook it, etc. Karl believes learning about these aspects empowers good food choices for better health, a stronger society, and a cleaner environment.

Brad Kosover

With a passion for people, travel, good eats and the environment, Brad Kossover created The GCD as the perfect catalyst, allowing him to combine and continue following his passions. The GCD features all-beef Sabrett natural casing frankfurters served on steamed poppy seed Mary Ann rolls. Enjoy award winning Sierra Nevada mustards, wickedly delicious toppings and much, much more… all from the world's first solar powered and biocompostable gourmet food cart.  Through sustainable projects, recycled products, solar power and non-petroleum based renewable resources such as corn, sugarcane and soy beans, everything used to serve our delicious eats is biodegradable, renewable or recyclable, and even compostable! We Love Good Eats & We Love the Planet. We strive to celebrate both, simply & deliciously!

Kevin Mequet

Mr. Mequet resides in Conway, AR. After devoting his career to commercial architectural and retail identity design he moved to Central Arkansas to fulfill familial commitments. This afforded him the opportunity to more broadly pursue a lifelong passion studying twentieth century philosophy, theology, mathematics and physics. He is conversant with the work of Gilles Deleuze through a productive collaboration with Clayton Crockett which has led to several book contributions. His primary interest is the development of a revolutionary idea in nuclear technology that would advance its usefulness several orders of magnitude providing for a real transition from a hydrocarbon to an electromagnetic nuclear civilization. He considers Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman to have had the greatest influence upon his life. His is a freelance author and researcher.
In his spare time he enjoys studying Chinese philosophy, theology, and aesthetic traditions with scholars at the Confucius Institute UCA. He has recently discovered the binary basis of the Yijing 64 hexagrams designed originally by Wen Zhou [Ji Chang] in the 12th century BCE from Fu Xi's 8 trigrams of the 30th century BCE. He is pursuing publication of his findings in both the US and China.

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