How old you you? How old do you feel? Accomplished scientific researcher Aditi Gurkar shares the latest findings in aging research, including a framework for understanding healthy agers and non-healthy agers. Aditi U. Gurkar is an Assistant Professor in the Aging Institute and Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Aditi received her Ph.D. at the Boston University School of Medicine and did her post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and The Scripps Research Institute. Her lab is interested in understanding the basis for 'Why we age?' and 'Can Aging be Reversed?' She received the K99/R00 Transition to Independence Award through the NIH and has been funded through the Nathan Shock Center, Pepper Center and the Aging Institute. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Hear a World Cup champion in women's soccer share what it's like to reach a career defining moment, but to also have to build your own path forward. In her talk, Meghan Klingenberg outlines that equal pay in women's soccer can only be achieved through equal investment and in valuing the merits of the women's game differently. Meghan Elizabeth Klingenberg is an American soccer defender and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. She is a former member of the United States women's national soccer team and currently plays for Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). She is also the co-founder of re-inc. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

How we record our history matters. Njaimeh Njie shares the ideas behind her work as a filmmaker, photographer and multimedia producer whose practice centers on documenting how Black people perceive themselves and their experiences in the cities they call home. Njaimeh Njie is a Pittsburgh based photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia producer. Her practice centers everyday people, narratives, and landscapes, with a particular focus on how Black people perceive themselves and their experiences in the cities they call home. Njie is the creator of the public art project, “Homecoming: Hill District, USA,” and was named the 2018 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, among other awards, grants, and fellowships. Her work has been featured in publications such as Belt Magazine, the Huffington Post, and the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Storyboard blog. A Pittsburgh native, Njie earned a B.A. in Film and Media Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

To combat the large disparity of investment in women founders, Emily Wazlak's idea, and platform, centers on the public ritual of caring. Hear how her big idea is reimagining women’s relationship to ambition and providing a platform to support women-founded startups with monetary and non-monetary asks in the style of a wedding registry. Emily Wazlak is the Founder and CEO of Shine Registry, a platform for female founders to ask for startup needs in the style of a wedding registry. You can ask for a gravy boat when you’re getting married and with Shine Registry you can ask for office supplies and network connections when you’re starting a business. Her company is changing the way communities show up for people they care about and reimagining the relationship between women and ambition. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Barrels to Beethoven founder Leigh Solomon Pugliano shares her family heritage connection to playing the steelpan and then shares the stage with her daughters in a stirring performance. Daughter of a steelpan builder and tuner, Leigh Solomon Pugliano is Director of Opportunity at New Sun Rising and Founder & Director of Barrels to Beethoven, a business the launched with her husband to preserve the art of steelpan music and innovate its use in the world today. The Steel City transplant from Guyana helps women start their own businesses or do work that means something to them. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Children spend the majority of their time in informal learning environments. How can informal learning be deigned to unlock joy and curiosity? By designing experiences that help children question their model of the world within a museum that have a direct input back into classroom environments. Jane Werner’s 37 years of museum experience includes 28 years at The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Werner leads the team responsible for all aspects of the Museum’s mission and vision, exhibits, public programming, funding and operations. The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh expanded in November 2004 after the completion of a $29M capital campaign. Attendance grew from 80,000 to currently 310,000. The project was the recipient of the 2006 American Institute of Architects National Award and National Trust for Historic Preservation Award. The Museum received the 2009 National Medal from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for its work in the community and in 2011 the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh was named one of the top ten children’s museums by Parents Magazine. Under Werner’s leadership and in partnership with the Warhol Museum, the Children’s Museum reopened the closed New Hazlett Theater, raising over $2million and creating a separate 501c3 organization. In 2012, the Museum opened Buhl Community Park, a $6.1million public park in front of the museum. The museum’s latest innovation is Museum Lab, which opened in April 2019, as a learning environment for older kids. With the completion of Museum Lab the museum has created the largest cultural campus for children in the United States. In 2013, the museum was cited by AAM Press in the book Magnetic as one of six museums with powerful internal alignment and a compelling vision allowing it to attract the critical resources for success. Prior to her tenure at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Werner worked for the Franklin Institute, Carnegie Science Center and Buhl Science Center. She ran her own exhibit design firm whose clients included the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Franklin Institute and Scientific Discovery Museum. Jane is past president of the Association of Children’s Museums, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Board and New Hazlett Theater. She is on the boards of the Maker Education Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University’s Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Design Committee, Remake Learning Council, Fred Rogers’ Center and Benedum Foundation. She’s also served on the American Institute of Architects and Rudy Bruner Design Award national juries. She holds an appointment at CMU’s Studio for Creative Inquiry and Art department, attended the Getty Leadership Institute and is a graduate of Syracuse University. Jane received ASTC’s 2007 Leading Edge Award for Experienced Leadership in the field, 2012 YWCA Woman in the Arts Leadership Award and was named a 2013 Pittsburgh Businesswoman Leader. She is a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx