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Dream Speakers
Today I asked my amazing twitter community whom they would love to learn from online or at an in-person event. I specifically sought the names of females, living today, although some people missed that caveat. All the responses were illuminating and so I’ve included them here.
If you’re curious, I asked because I was attempting to make a point in some other writing that today we can learn from our “dream speakers” online, through books, over the tube—whereby in the past, we might only have heard them teaching a class or at a conference.
Thank you to everyone who chimed in. My head is swimming with the prospects of how much we could each learn.
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BeckyDMBR @marciamarcia Connie May Fowler, Connie Schultz.
britz @marciamarcia madeline albright
oline73 @marciamarcia also danah boyd, Mimi Ito
slewth @marciamarcia I’d ask for Louise Bourgeois.
oline73 @marciamarcia Dream keynotes? Howard Bloom, Clay Shirky, Elon Musk, Lee Kuan Yew, Rory Stewart, J.C. Watts
trib @marciamarcia best female speakers I’ve heard recently - Nina Jablonsky and Liz Coleman - compelling.
BeckyDMBR @marciamarcia Geneva Overholser, Barbara Ehrenreich.
TonyLoyd @marciamarcia Dream Speakers: Living Female: YOU, of course. Also @sarahstanley. Mission: inspire children to move.
StevenWalling @marciamarcia Marissa Mayer or (for non-tech) Vandana Shiva.
BeckyDMBR @marciamarcia Top of my list? Gro Harlem Brundtland.
susanmernit @marciamarcia: alive keynoters? Louise Erdich, Muriel Siebert, Ellen Hancock, Red Burns, Lisa Stone, Lucinda Williams
ITSinsider @marciamarcia first one that comes to mind is Anna Quindlin.
TonyLoyd @marciamarcia Dream Speakers: Dead Female: Eleanor Roosevelt - led the charge for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. My hero.
Geotch @marciamarcia Oprah
JudithELS @marciamarcia There’s only one - Baroness Margaret Thatcher! susanmernit @marciamarcia: dream keynoters: Emma Goldman, Rimbaud, Ada Lovelace, Colette, Henry Miller, Madame CJ Walker, Chester Himes, Luther Burbank
JillElswick @marciamarcia Demosthenes.
lisasolod @marciamarcia I am partial to Margaret Atwood.
tericee @jstogdill @marciamarcia Hearing Grace Hopper speak like *would* be great!
gminks @marciamarcia Wilma Mankiller
jstogdill @marciamarcia I wish she was still alive so I could say Grace Hopper.BeckyDMBR @marciamarcia Just ONE woman? Seriously?
rwang0 RT @marciamarcia: What woman, living today anywhere on earth, would you most want to speak at a conference or even online?
