Leadership Committee
Bernice Chao x Founder
For the last five years, Bernice Chao has been the Lead Organizer for TEDxCulverCity and has hosted nine sold-out events. By day, she works as an Associate Creative Director at David & Goliath working on advertising campaigns for big brands.
She also teaches visual design at General Assembly, is a public speaker, and works with several non-profits. She's recently written a book called "Branding Quickies," once completed an Ironman, and is a new mom.
Matt Miller x Audio Engineer and Mixer
Matt is a re-recording mixer at Lime Studios in L.A. where he mixes national television commercials. On top of years of experience in mixing, he is also versed in sound design and composing original music.
He has worked on a variety of side projects such as feature films, branded content, and award winning short films.
After hours you can find him spending time with his family and performing with his band 311-ish.
Michele Ching x Lead
Michele Ching has a background in innovation and partnerships, Michele has spent her career building bridges between people, practices, and possibilities.
Michele’s mission is simple: to shift our culture from quick fixes and symptom management toward tools and practices that honor the body’s natural design for balance.
Chiko Scozzafava x Co-Lead & Event Coordinator
Chiko Scozzafava is a strategist, builder, and believer in the power of possibility. Her career has taken her from protecting world leaders as a U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Southeast Asia to guiding the next chapter of high-impact nonprofits, helping them expand their reach and resilience.
Grounded in purpose and service, Chiko believes leadership is as much about how you show up as what you set in motion. She is passionate about building community, amplifying talent and preparing people and the planet for the future, with a healthy dose of creativity and courage.
Incredible Volunteers
Jes Milberg-Haydu
Domenic Scozzafava
Cydni Gordon
Fran Kang
Anne Fishkin
Tony Burns
Jakob Shavinski
If you would like to volunteer, please contact us.
ABOUT TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes.
Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com.
TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Long Beach, California, along with the TEDActive simulcast in Palm Springs; the annual TEDGlobal conference is held each summer in Edinburgh.
TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, the recently launched TED-Ed platform for students and educators, the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide, and TEDBooks, short e-books by speakers that elaborate on a single idea originally presented on TED’s stage. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action; TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to become part of the TED community and, with its help, amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.
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