TEDxAntiochSalon

Speakers

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

• Nashville State Community College (NSCC) Jazz Ensemble

  The NSCC Jazz Ensemble consists of a group of students who attend Nashville State Community College located in Nashville, TN.

• Ami Mattison

  Touring professionally since 2002, Mattison has performed at various art venues, festivals, conferences, colleges, and universities throughout the US and Canada. In 2013, she received the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Spoken Word Award. Acclaimed Southern writer, Dorothy Allison, writes: “Always [Mattison] speaks for the despised in verse that hallows grief and embodies joy. The world is larger, wider, fuller for the people she brings alive in words.” Mattison served as a writer-in-residence at Inside Out in Detroit, Michigan and taught poetry and creative expression in the Detroit public school system. She also taught at Emory University, Georgia State University and Antioch College in Ohio before pursuing writing and performing on a full-time basis. She currently resides in Alabama.

• Elaine Husted

  Elaine takes great pleasure in the choreographic and teaching process. She finds creating shapes, movement, and rhythms, and giving these to others to perform, a profound and rewarding experience. Elaine grew up dancing in upstate New York and has lived in the Nashville area since 2001. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Dance from S.U.N.Y. Brockport and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. Elaine has taught at several universities and private studios and is now the Artistic Director of HustedDance.