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Kathryn Hall-Trujillo is the Founding Director of Birthing Project USA. The United Stated is home to the highest infant mortality rate of the industrialized world; a statistic that proves especially devastating for minority populations.

Through the Birthing Project, Kathryn works to improve birth outcomes for women of color by providing technical assistance and support to communities and organizations, pairing pregnant women with a "sister-friend," who becomes a trusted partner throughout pregnancy and the first year of the child's life.

More than 10,000 babies have been born into 90 Birthing Projects in the US, Canada, Honduras, Cuba, and Malawi. Kathryn has been honored as Woman of the Year by the California State Legislature, and a Hero in Healthcare by the Coalition for Excellence in Healthcare.

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Aleta Margolis, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Inspired Teaching, is a former professor of education at American University, specializing in authentic assessment, science and math education, and curriculum reform.

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Marshall Chapman rose from her conservative SC background to become a rock and roll pioneer.

She has since written #1 hit songs, recorded 10 critically acclaimed albums, and written award winning books and plays.

Susan notes: Thanks to TED for making TED Talks downloadable and embeddable, and for providing the biographical information that goes along with them.

Jane McGonigal asks: Why doesn't the real world work more like an online game? In the best-designed games, our human experience is optimized: We have important work to do, we're surrounded by potential collaborators, and we learn quickly and in a low-risk environment.

In her work as a game designer, she creates games that use mobile and digital technologies to turn everyday spaces into playing fields, and everyday people into teammates. Her game-world insights can explain -- and improve -- the way we learn, work, solve problems, and lead our real lives.
 
McGonigal directs game R&D at the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit forecasting firm where she developed Superstruct, a massively multiplayer game in which players organize society to solve for issues that will confront the world in 2019.

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Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira, a TED Senior Fellow, talks about her work helping to save birds and other animals stolen from the wild in Brazil. Once these animals are seized from smugglers, she asks, then what?

TED Senior Fellow Juliana Machado Ferreira is pursuing her doctorate in Conservation Genetics at the Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology and Vertebrate Conservation (LABEC) at São Paulo University.