Emilia Iskra

Artist, Brainstormer, Buddhist, Business leader, Change Agent, Connector, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Journalist, Marketer, Project manager, Promoter, Social entrepreneur, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Freedom of speech, expression, and thought. Human rights. Communication. Controversy. Playing devil's advocate, philosophizing, entertaining and exchanging conflicting ideas.

Life is what happens when you step outside your comfort zone.

communication, creativity, culture, expression, language, psychology, slam poetry, writing

My TED story pretty much aligns with my TEDx journey as well. Having grown up and lived in Ottawa, I had heard of TED, maybe watched a few clips, thought it was a great concept, but didn't immerse myself too much into it beyond that. The full-immersion came when I embarked on somewhat of a gap year to Poland in Spring 2015. Within a few weeks, I had found TEDxKrakow, and after attending their live streaming of TEDWomen, I reached out to one of the team members regarding getting involved. What's funny is, I didn't even know how much longer I would be in Poland (the gap year was sort of an indeterminate, prolonged vacation of sorts... At first). Well, before I knew it, I was live-blogging the TEDxKrakow 2015 conference, and the communications team had pretty much adopted me into their family. As an official member of the team, now I curate the English blog for TEDxKrakow, as well as help in coordinating our monthly events. And the rest, as they say, is TEDstory.