Education
Middlebury College
B.A., Cognitive Psychology
2011Podcasts
42:11539: What a Speaker Development Curator Does at TED With Cloe Shasha, TED Conferences [Main T4C Episode]
Cloe Shasha is the Speaker Development Curator for TED, a non-profit organization geared at sharing ideas through short, powerful speeches and presentations. TED stands for “technology, entertainment, design” and it is Cloe’s job to research and choose potential new speakers to share their ideas onTED’s stage, podcast and video programs...
10:26Career Path
Interview Highlights
“As a generalist curator, I really am listening for the ear of what the general audience would respond to and try to help them reach that ear better.”
Best Career Advice
“We have to make opportunities for ourselves and can’t expect anything to land in our laps.”
Career Challenge
“The first time that I curated a program completely on my own was this program. That was a salon event, so not a super long one, but 7-8 speakers in our Ted office theater. And I felt, I think queuing for years already, but always with a team and with a second reader. And for this one, it was one of those projects that was like, ‘Oh yeah, you’ll, you’ll be fine.’ And the truth is I wasn’t fine. I needed support.”
Skills
Blogging, Spanish, Research, Entrepreneurship, Community Outreach, Editing, Writing, Creative Writing, Events Organizing, Public Relations, Graphic Design, Journalism, Social Media Marketing, Photography, Public Speaking, Leadership, Community Building
Professional Interests
Chris Fralic, Middlebury College, TED Conferences, Thousand Network, Middlebury College Network, The Dalton School Alumni Association
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