TED Residency
The TED Residency program (2016–2019) was an incubator for breakthrough ideas, open to all via a competitive application. Those chosen as TED Residents spent fourteen weeks at TED headquarters in New York City, collaborating with one another on their ideas. Each Resident also developed a TED Talk, and here are the results.
Spring 2019 Residents
Robert Clauser
Do non-profits need a matchmaker?
Mohammad Modarres
Why you should shop at your local farmers market
Michael Roberson
The enduring legacy of ballroom
Charlotte M. Ellett
How social deduction can make you a human lie detector
Daniel Bögre Udell
How to save a language from extinction
Jessica Ochoa Hendrix
How virtual reality turns students into scientists
Matthew A. Wilson
The health benefits of clowning around
Fall 2018 Residents
Matthew A. Wilson
The health benefits of clowning around
Yana Buhrer Tavanier
How to recover from activism burnout
Glenn Cantave
How augmented reality is changing activism
Luz Claudio
Why science needs community engagement
Keith Ellenbogen
New York's surprising underwater wildlife
Diane Henry
Making tech serve human values
Muhammed Idris
What refugees need to start new lives
Azadeh Jamalian
How kids will design the future
Keith Kirkland
Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
Kelo Kubu
A modern future for farming
Kemi Layeni
The haunting landscape of slavery
Mordechai Lightstone
Illuminating modern life with ancient wisdom
Jullia Lim
How AR can help autistic children
Samy Nour Younes
A short history of trans people's long fight for equality
Jeanne Pinder
What if all US health care costs were transparent?
Mariana Prieto
Why animals need design
Sav Rodgers
The rom-com that saved my life
Julie Scelfo
How do humans make true meaning?
Raegan Sealy
How rap saves lives
Spring 2018 Residents
Stefan Al
The future of parking space
Ashwini Anburajan
How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital
Eron Bloomgarden
A new financial model for conservation
Ben Blum-Smith
What does math have to do with democracy?
Catie Cuan
Teaching robots how to dance
Angélica Dass
What kids should know about race
Ariane de Bonvoisin
The skills we need to teach our kids
Gahmya Drummond-Bey
Teaching kids to find their mission
Queen Esther
The true origins of country music
Jon Gosier
How big data ought to behave
Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo
Lessons of cultural intimacy
Caroline McCarthy
How advertising is dividing us
Mohammad Modarres
How to build a more inclusive dinner table
Gaurav Ragtah
Can AI make us more lucky?
Alexandra Sacks
A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
Fall 2017 Residents
tobacco brown
What gardening taught me about life
William Frey
Can a tweet lead to violence?
Karen Palmer
The film that watches you back
Derrius Quarles
How banks are failing African-Americans
Michael Rain
What it's like to be the child of immigrants
Kifah Shah
Embroidering Opportunity
Bob Stein
A rite of passage for late life
Malika Whitley
How the arts help homeless youth heal and build
Anouk Wipprecht
Clothing as emotional interface
Allison Yarrow
What to expect post-expecting
Eiji Han Shimizu
Finding humanity in a hopeless corner of North Korea
Spring 2017 Residents
Maytha Alhassen
A Poem for Syria: Beyond a Geography of Violence
Wendy Brawer
How green is my city?
Alison Cornyn
Rediscovering wayward girls
Duarte Geraldino
What we're missing in the debate about immigration
Anurag Gupta
What we can save by breaking unconscious bias
Sue Jaye Johnson
What we don't teach kids about sex
Fred Kahl
Why I built a time machine
Anindya Kundu
The boost students need to overcome obstacles
Linda Liukas
Crawling into a computer
Leslie Arely Martinez
Designing access to justice for unaccompanied immigrant youth
Matthew Nolan
World Peace, one swipe at a time
Evita Robinson
Reclaiming the globe
Steve Rosenbaum
The end of fake news
Bayeté Ross Smith
Why America has always been great
Katie Salisbury
As American as chop suey
Paul Tasner
How I became an entrepreneur at 66
Nikki Webber Allen
Don't suffer from your depression in silence
Fall 2016 Residents
Kevin F. Adler
Don't be a stranger
Miriam Leia Bekkouche
The hidden key to diplomacy
Jordan Brown
Imagining a future for digital medicine
Angel Chang
How ancient textiles can help the future
Sharon de la Cruz
Can computers understand slang?
Hadi Eldebek
Why must artists be poor?
Mohamad Eldebek
A musical instrument you've never seen before
Danielle Gustafson
The future of conservation is in your pocket
Shani Jamila
Reimagining resistance through art
Shalini Kantayya
The future of the American Dream is green
Francesca Kennedy
Finding hope in murky water
Jeff Kirschner
This app makes it fun to pick up litter
Lia Oganesyan
Virtual reality is not a luxury
Marlon Peterson
Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform
Susan Robinson
How I fail at being disabled
Kunal Sood
What makes us truly happy?
Rachel Sussman
An ephemeral look at eternity
Elizabeth Waters
We are all scientists
Spring 2016 Residents
Daniel Ahmadizadeh
The art of hustle
Piper Anderson
Can stories create justice?
Isabel Behncke
Does nature have a sense of humor?
Susan Bird
Conversation: the new luxury
Sashko Danylenko
Around the world on a bike
Tanya Dwyer
Keeping Brooklyn's pioneer spirit alive
Laura Anne Edwards
A treasure map for open data
Rob Gore
Healing inner-city trauma
Che Grayson
The superhero we need
Reggie Black
Are you using your voice?
Bethany Halbreich
What fuels brilliance?
Sarah Hinawi
How to succeed in the gig economy
DK Holland
Kids should help run their own schools
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
How to use the ocean without using it up
Jonathan Kalan
The power of privilege
Brian McCullough
History in the digital age
Ted Myerson
Big data needs big privacy
Andrew Nemr
Stepping back in time...before it's too late
Cavaughn Noel
It takes a village
Torin Perez
Folk tales come in all colors
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
The storytelling of science
Vanessa Valenti
The problem with public speaking
Kimberlee Williams
The new majority
Sheryl Winarick
Immigrants keep America great
Michael Youngblood