How to Speak Up, Shine on the Stage, and Create Real World Impact

How to Speak Up, Shine on the Stage, and Create Real World Impact

Tuesday, July 22 7:00 - 8:00 pm ET

Vanessa Valenti and Courtney Martin co-founded FRESH (along with now silent partner, John Cary) a decade ago, and since then they've been bringing trickster energy (TM Tricia Hersey) to the thought leadership space in all kinds of joyful and generative ways. They've created an intentionally small speakers bureau filled with some of the country's true geniuses; an online thought leadership training program that breaks the mold on how to teach people to get out in the world and change it, and a lab where they are podcasting, substacking, and so much more. They've stayed besties, collaborators and weathered illness, divorce, and babies through it all. Come learn about all these innovations and their lifelong partnership!

WHAT TO KNOW

PAY WHAT YOU CAN: This event is open to everyone, regardless of means. To help us estimate attendance and sustain our social justice model, we offer a sliding scale. Please pay what you can afford.

ALL ARE WELCOME: If the lowest tier on the scale is a hardship, please email info@theopedproject.org for a full scholarship.

JOIN VIA ZOOM: After you register, you will receive a confirmation email that includes the Zoom link to join the talk.

RECORDING: A recording will be made available the day after the talk to everyone who registered, accessible for one week only.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Courtney Martin is FRESH Speakers co-founder and Chief Ideas Officer. Courtney has been called “one of our most insightful culture critics and one of our finest young writers” by Parker Palmer. Her writing has been described as “varied, transformational, and necessary for us all” by Jane Fonda. A two-time TED speaker, and recipient of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, she is the author of multiple books, an advisor to the Obama Foundation and The Aspen Institute, co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, and storyteller-in-residence at HoldingCo. She writes a popular newsletter, “the examined family” with over 10,000 subscribers, and her work and words have appeared in the New York Times, MSNBC, Vox, CNN, and Christian Science Monitor.

Vanessa Valenti is FRESH Speakers co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Vanessa is an entrepreneur, writer, and speaker, who cut her teeth co-founding the award-winning online feminist publication, Feministing.com, in 2004. Over the last decade, Vanessa has worked with a range of institutions and organizations across the globe, including the Aspen Institute, TED, UN Women, the Clinton Foundation, Planned Parenthood and more, producing content development and curation, and delivering speaker coaching and storytelling. She has won several awards for her activist work and Feministing, including the Hillman Prize for Exemplary Reporting that Fosters Social and Economic Justice. She was also the recipient of the TED Residency, where she explored solutions to inspire minds to redesign thought leadership. "

ABOUT THE OPED PROJECT

The OpEd Project is a global thought leadership project that accelerates the ideas and impact of underrepresented voices, especially women of all backgrounds. We believe the best ideas, regardless of where they come from, should have a chance to be heard and change the world. We also believe the world is more intelligent when it is more inclusive.

We are a community of journalists, commentary writers, thought leaders and change-agents who actively share knowledge, resources and connections across color, creed, class, sexuality, gender, age, ability and beyond. We have been featured in most major media. We have stunning results. Learn more and join us at www.theopedproject.org.