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.
The intimacy of listening: Producer Cloe Shasha shares a few surprising insights that her team learned while producing TED and Audible’s audio series, “Sincerely, X.”
Roman Mars had two ideas for his TED Talk: the talk he thought he should give and the talk he wanted to give. As the creator of 99% Invisible, a podcast about the design elements in life that usually go unnoticed, Mars felt like his talk should tackle the basic principles of design and how […]
Dame Stephanie Shirley had just a few hours to go before giving her talk at TEDWomen 2013. There was just one problem: she could hardly speak. Shirley, a tech entrepreneur who founded a software company in the 1960s, had flown from London to San Francisco to speak at the conference. Her talk told the story […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 2009, Simon Sinek gave the talk “How great leaders inspire action” to an audience of 50 people in a small room at TEDxPugetSound. It quickly became the second most-watched talk on TED.com. Sinek, of course, felt honored by the growing popularity of his talk—and by the opportunity to inspire people to think more deeply about […]
“As you can see, my legs are bionic,” said Hugh Herr on the TED2014 stage. “The artificial part of my body is malleable, able to take on any form, any function, a blank slate through which to create structures that can extend beyond biological capability.” Standing tall in a suit hemmed at his knees, Herr […]
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 […]