TEDxUTD

Speakers

Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.

• Gowri Santosh

  Aspiring Aerospace Engineer and Student Speaker

  Gowri Santosh is a recent high school graduate from Prosper, Texas, with a passion for aerospace engineering and storytelling. She’s hosted a podcast focused on women in STEM and uses speaking as a way to connect with others and challenge conventional thinking. She is currently studying aerospace engineering at UT Arlington, in hopes to become an astronaut further down the road.

• Jobert Abueva

  Author

  Jobert E. Abueva is an L&D keynote, workshop & executive facilitator as well as global marketing and philanthropy executive. He is the author of The Janus Plan: A No-Resolutions Path to Begin Your Year with Intention. After burning out at the peak of a Fortune 500 career, he spent nearly three decades developing a framework for honest reflection and intentional renewal. He has led brand launches across four continents, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fortune, and Entrepreneur.

• Melissa Parsons

  Life Coach + Pediatrician

  Melissa Parsons, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician who spent 22 years caring for children and their parents in Columbus, Ohio before discovering there's more than one way to save a life. Now the founder of Melissa Parsons Coaching and host of the podcast "Your Favorite You," she guides women to become their favorite versions of themselves.

• Patty Lytwyn

  Licensed Therapist, Life Coach + Burnout Recovery Advocate

  Patty Lytwyn is a licensed therapist, life coach, and speaker who helps people reconnect with who they are beyond their roles and responsibilities. Drawing from her clinical work and her own experience with burnout, she encourages people to move beyond merely functioning and begin creating lives in which they feel fully alive.

• Shreya Chhibber

  Mental Health Advocate

  Shreya Chhibber is a McDermott Scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work focuses on the intersection of mental health and public policy. It especially focuses on how stigma shapes whether people seek help. She is interested in expanding mental health resources and advocating for communities to support people dealing with mental illness.