Vanessa Garcia Woodworth

Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Parent, Project manager, Writer/Editor

Vanessa Woodworth currently serves as a researcher and fact checker for TEDx. Prior to joining the TED team, Vanessa worked as a Senior Research Coordinator at Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania helping to manage a project focusing on the intersection of behavioral health and the criminal justice system. Vanessa graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Anthropology (with a concentration in Human Biology), and from the University of Connecticut with an MA in Anthropology (with a focus in Applied Anthropology). As part of her Master's Thesis, she collected ethnographic field data to measure perceptions of violence in Colombia.

Criminal Justice Reform, Social Justice, Education

Anthropology, Fact Checking