Tony Award-winning performer, writer, director and producer Sarah Jones is best known for the chameleon-like ease with which she slips in and out of characters.
Why you should listen
Jones’s acting credits include costarring in the Netflix series On the Verge; she also appeared in Marriage Story and on the final season of Broad City. She recently launched Foment Productions, a social justice-focused entertainment company, while she continues to perform for high-profile audiences around the world. She has also served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Sarah Jones’ TED Talks
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Live from TED2023
Breathing deep and embracing humanity’s full potential: Notes on Session 7 of TED2023
April 20, 2023
In the soul-seeking Session 7 of TED2023 a group of extraordinary individuals considered counternarratives to the doom-and-gloom that pervades much of modern media and sought to recalibrate our thinking on what it means to be human. The event: Talks from Session 7 of TED2023: Possibility, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson and Audacious Project […]
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Just and Unjust: A recap of the powerful talks of Session 9 at TED2015
March 19, 2015
Questions of justice and injustice are the most difficult of our world. There’s no app that can fix these things; simple solutions just don’t exist. And yet, we have to try. In these six talks, speakers share their thoughts on large-scale injustices and give their thoughts on how we can start to dismantle them. The echo of […]
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Future World Problems #fwp
May 2, 2014
In her TED Talk, Sarah Jones channels characters from THE FUTURE. But in the future, turns out, we’re still pretty much the same kinds of people we are today. Sure, we may wear robot fighting exoskeletons -- but we’re still going to war and falling in love and arguing with our moms. And that's great.
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