Thank You for Attending TEDxStLouis Women: Future Focus

We are grateful you joined us for a powerful day of ideas, innovation, and inspiration.

Your energy helped make our 25th event unforgettable.

Explore the Voices that Lit Up Innovation Alley

Below you will find talks from past TEDxStLouis speakers featured in Innovation Alley.

Revisit their ideas, see what they are building now, and share their work with your world.

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Bronwyn Morgan

Talk: “Navigating Life and Business in the Sky”

Event Year: 2024

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Mary Ruppert-Stroescu

Talk: “3 problems with sustainable fashion”

Event Year: 2023

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R. Lauren Miller

Talk: “A Case For High School Statistics”

Event Year: 2025

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Red and Black Brass Band

Performance: St. Louis powerhouse ensemble that spreads joy, love, and gratitude through soulful horns, smooth vocals, and an infectious New Orleans second-line beat.

Event Year: 2025

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Doug Lindsay

Talk: “Operation: Adrenal Gland”

Event Year: 2018

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Marcus Adrian

Talk: “What I learned designing for Deaf kids”

Event Year: 2017

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Kyra Krakos

Talk: “Plants, Pollinators and People: A Love Story/ Hope, Humanity and Conservation”

Event Year: 2015

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Theresa Coble

Talk: “Grieving Difficult History: There’s a Place for That”

Event Year: 2017

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Sharon Deem

Talk: “One Health in an Age of Climate Change, Extinctions, and a Pandemic”

Event Year: 2020

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April Foster

Talk: “Unlocking Justice: Transforming Lives by Empowering Women”

Event Year: 2024

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Holly Fann

Talk: “The illusion of 'authentic' food”

Event Year: 2022

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Dan Flynn

Talk: “Thinking Outside the Box: The New Funeral Dynamic”

Event Year: 2024

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Cynthia Chapple

Talk: “Roaming Curiosity Leads to Radical Imagination”

Event Year: 2023

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Sarah Schlafly

Talk: “It's Time to Embrace Insects as a Food Source”

Event Year: 2022

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Sukanya Mani

Talk: “Paper Cutting Art Explores Physics & Philosophy”

Event Year: 2022

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