Welcome to the final month till TEDxWWU! With just 31 days till the event, we are gearing up and ready to rock with two more of our amazing speakers!
Benjie Howard
Benjie Howard was raised in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains, where he lived in a remodeled barn, and went to a one room country school. He is the co-founder and director of New Wilderness Project, a collective of artists and educators working with school districts, universities, and organizations across the country offering performance, community engagement, and social justice leadership programs. He is a river guide and wilderness educator on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Benjie is the founder of Cascadia Exploration Company. He finished his second full length album, “Secrets Like Bones” in 2012. He is currently in the middle of a nation wide album release tour. Benjie lives in Bellingham with his wife and his two children.
If you would like to learn more about Benjie and New Wilderness Project, visit their website Here.
If you would like to learn more about Benjie and New Wilderness Project, visit their website Here.
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Daniel Espinoza-Gonzalez
Daniel Espinoza-Gonzalez is a double major in English Literature with an interdisciplinary concentration titled "Writing to Explore; Performance to Empower." Currently the Program Support Coordinator of the Associated Students' Ethnic Student Center at Western Washington University, he has co-presented with Dr. Carmen Werder and other students about the role of student voices in enhancing education at multiple forums including the 2009 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference and the 2012 AAC&U Annual Meeting. His reflective piece titled "Finding Value in My Voice" was published in the Winter 2013 issue of Diversity & Democracy (AAC&U). On the side, he performs spoken word poetry.
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