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Cloe Shasha

New York, New York, United States
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Content & Program Producer

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Cloe grew up in New York City and Paris, and spends as much time in San Francisco as she can. She is the Content & Program Producer at TED, where she works on speaker research and curation, content development (helping speakers prepare the content and style of their talks), writing, podcast curation, and production. She graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in cognitive psychology. She continues to work with admissions to interview first year applicants. Cloe is a Thousand Network Fellow and a StartingBloc Fellow. In 2012 she co-founded Global Leadership Lab, a small incubator for social entrepreneurs. She has been a logo and web designer, a cognitive psychology researcher, a solar engineering document translator from English to French at The Barefoot College, an industrial design researcher for Ross Lovegrove, a commissioned child portrait painter, an illustrator for Scientific American, and a writer for ABC News articles and small print newspapers. She founded and organized TEDxMiddlebury and helped launch an accelerator called The Bold Academy. She loves dancing, bringing people together, writing, music, art, and exploring the outdoors. Cloe has been a drummer for Batala, an all women's samba band. She speaks English, French, Spanish, and is proficient in German.

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The week I look forward to all year long

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The week I look forward to all year long

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We’re all looking for a tribe — a group of people we can talk with, bat around ideas with, make things happen with. And we’re all looking for inspiration — things to spark our imagination, send us off in new directions, and keep us buoyed when things get tough. One week each year, TED hosts []

10 signs you should be at TEDActive next March

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10 signs you should be at TEDActive next March

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TEDActive is for the thinkers, doers and dreamers of the world. An action-packed event that runs parallel to the annual TED conference, TEDActive is meant for people who want to hear new ideas — then create ripple effects of action around them. TEDActive 2015 will take place March 16-20 in Whistler, British Columbia, and explore []

A TED speaker, discovered in a bar

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A TED speaker, discovered in a bar

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Kate Stone’s journey to the TED stage began, of all places, in a London bar. In 2012, TED Curator Chris Anderson and Content Director Kelly Stoetzel embarked on a worldwide talent search, traveling to 14 cities on six continents. In each city, they hosted live events to find amazing speakers, and 34 of them ended []

Have a TED Talk in you? Many applied to speak at TED@NYC, and the speakers are…

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Have a TED Talk in you? Many applied to speak at TED@NYC, and the speakers are…

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For the past four years, TED has held an annual evening salon in New York City to find talents, voices and ideas that the world needs to hear. At TED@NYC, an energetic audience gathers over dinner and drinks and watches a passionate lineup of speakers deliver short, rapid-fire talks and performances. The twist? For this event, we put out an open call and invite anyone in []