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TEDx Meetup @ MLK

How to be a TEDx Speaker

Become a Better Storyteller! Join us for the TEDxLogan Circle Meetup and unlock the power of storytelling.

Hear from our former TEDx speakers, connect with fellow innovators, and learn practical tips to captivate any audience. Furthermore, given our opportunity to connect at the Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Library, we will have a chance to visit The Negro Motorist Green Book and Green Book in D.C. exhibits.

Agenda

5:00 pm - 6:20 pm: Registration and Open Networking
5:45 pm - 6:00 pm: The Negro Motorist Green Book and Green Book in D.C. exhibition tour
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm: Welcome and Opening Remarks
6:20 pm - 7:30 pm: How to be a TEDx Speaker Panel
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Networking

TEDxLogan Circle Team

• Monica H. Kang, TEDxLogan Circle, License Holder and Organizer
• Grady Lynn, TEDxLogan Circle, Speaker Coordinator [Moderator] 

Panelists and TEDx Speakers

• Christopher Chin, 2024 TEDxLogan Circle Speaker
• Kristin Malek, 2024 TEDxLogan Circle Speaker
• Evelyn Chou, 2024 TEDxLogan Circle Speaker

About TEDx Meetups

We love bringing good people together! 

To build a community for all DC innovators to connect and collaborate, TEDxLogan Circle hosts regular community TEDx meetups. Each gathering will incorporate a mix of open networking, learning, and some interactive programming.

Speaker Bios

Christopher Chin

While working in the tech industry, Chris saw extremely talented colleagues struggle to get the opportunities they deserved because they couldn’t present, tell a story, and speak with confidence. He decided to make it his mission to close that communication gap. Now he works as Founder & CEO of The Hidden Speaker, a training consultancy that puts tech professionals on the path to confident communication. In a poetic full circle, he used to work at Fortune 500 companies – now he trains technical teams at those companies and around the world with highly specialized communication workshops. As a speaker, coach, and trainer, his work has helped thousands demonstrate leadership through communication, and he is passionate about convincing every introverted, techie out there that they, too, can bring out their hidden speaker.

Kristin Malek

Kristin Malek serves as the Director of Business Diversity at CDW. In this role, Malek has firmly established an innovative business diversity strategy that aligns with CDW’s core values.

As the architect of CDW’s diverse supply chain with more than 1100+ suppliers, Malek ensures CDW’s continued investment in diversity, equality, and inclusion within their businesses. She is responsible for the firm’s total spend with diverse partners that in 2022 alone reached more than $3Billion. Under Kristin’s leadership, CDW was inducted into the prestigious Billion Dollar Roundtable and was named a Supplier Diversity Excellence Champion by Gartner.

Malek is a member of the National Minority Supplier Diversity Council (NMSDC), an advisory board member for Chicago Blend, and serves as Vice Chair of the Chicago Minority Supplier Diversity Council. As a proponent of women in technology, she is involved with Tech Scale, an advocacy group for diversity in supply chain within tech and is an executive board member for SheTek, a non-profit in New York City focused on women and young girls participating in STEM.

She has been featured in Professional Woman Magazine, Diversity Professional Magazine, and Women’s Enterprise. Malek is a Cornell University graduate, a native of Illinois and has held leadership roles in Canada during her 20 year tenure at Target.

Malek is mother to two young girls and fosters their curiosity, independence and education but most of all grit and a will to succeed. Kristin Malek has been named one of the Top 15 Women in Power Impacting Diversity by Diversity Professional Magazine, one of New York City’s Most Responsible 100 by City & State NY, and a 40 under 40 New York Rising Star by City & State NY.

Evelyn Chou

Evelyn is a connector and technologist with over 10 years of experience across diverse industries like Marketplace, MarTech, and EdTech. She is passionate about helping others navigate the workplace, gain professional clarity, and foster inclusive spaces. Evelyn is a regular speaker at national technology conferences, where she shares her authentic voice and ideas to drive innovation. Growing up, Evelyn dreamed of becoming a TEDx speaker to share her personal journey of adapting to socioeconomic changes, pathfinding across industries, and turning setbacks into learning opportunities. Aligned with the TEDx theme of “rethinking innovation”, Evelyn has continuously reinvented herself and transformed those around her, as she believes innovation does not happen in isolation.

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