TEDxAnchorage

🎤 Introducing our host for tomorrow evening…Katy Laurance!

Katy Laurance is an award-winning playwright, storyteller, and performer based in Anchorage, Alaska. She has appeared as a regular host and storyteller for Arctic Entries, and her storytelling performance Shells on a Beach was featured on The Moth Mainstage and The Moth Podcast. Her plays have been featured in the Valdez Theatre Conference Play Lab, and most recently her play What We Inherit was a finalist for SheNYC’s 2025 Summer Theatre Festival, and Amphibian Stage’s SparkFest 2025.

An active artist and performer, Katy has served as Artistic Director/Improvisor (Scared Scriptless Improv), vocal soloist (Anchorage Cabarets), tap performer (2023 Cama’i Dance Festival), and lead actress in multiple stage productions (Cyrano’s Theatre Company). Katy was most recently awarded Best Lead Actor honors at the 2024 SheLA Summer Theatre Festival for her title role in Blanche Stuart Scott (Midnight Summit Ensemble).

We’re so excited for TEDxAnchorage tomorrow night! We hope you’ll be able to make it!!

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✨ Event Details:
TEDxAnchorage: Constellations
When: August 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Where: UAA Fine Arts Bldg. Anchorage, Alaska



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Excitement keeps building leading up to event day!!
⏰ Last chance to grab your tickets before event day!

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✨ Event Details:
TEDxAnchorage: Constellations
When: August 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Where: UAA Fine Arts Bldg. Anchorage, Alaska



Weekend events in Anchorage
Fun events in Anchorage
TEDx Talk

🎉 Meet TEDxAnchorage Speaker, Robert Andersen

Rob is the founder of Grape ID™, a permanent solution to spam offering open-source software. His personal frustrations with spam and privacy issues motivated him to also create a marketplace where advertisers buy people’s time instead of spamming them.

Through his social media persona “AntiSpamGuy”, his goal is to unite 50 million people to end spam forever. He’s a trilingual 4x patent author, an 8x entrepreneur, and a software engineer. He has a team of nationally-recognized engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts dedicated to ending spam.

Rob won a golden ticket to The Great American Speak Off semi-finals, has spoken at Unfair Advantage Live, and his team has spoken at 60+ national cybersecurity conferences. For his expertise, he has been featured on TechCrunch, ATM Marketplace, Dothan’s Fox32, Youngston’s 21-WFMJ, Delmarva’s WBOC CBS, and the Kim Jacobs Show.

🎤 Watch Rob speak on August 15th at the UAA Fine Arts Building with TEDxAnchorage!

✨ Event Details:
TEDxAnchorage: Constellations
When: August 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Where: UAA Fine Arts Bldg. Anchorage, Alaska

🎉 Meet TEDxAnchorage Speaker, Elise Arsenault!

Elise Arsenault is an award-winning audiobook narrator, actor, coach and entrepreneur drawn to stories of overcoming challenges, and is on a mission to empower artists and anyone with a dream to breakthrough and finally go after it! Most recently, Elise was honored with an AudioFile Earphones Award and a SOVAS nomination for her narration of the 40+ hour definitive biography of singer, director, philanthropist and disruptor Madonna: A Rebel Life.

Elise is the Founder of The Global Actor™, Host of The Global Actor™ podcast and Creator of The Great Audiobook Adventure™ the leading audiobook narration program specifically designed to help actors build thriving audiobook narration careers working with publishers.

As a speaker, Elise has connected with audiences on international stages from the Actors Expo in London to VO Atlanta as well as dozens of podcasts and online summits. She is also a Backstage Expert - a contributing writer for Backstage Magazine.

🎤 Watch Elise speak on August 15th at the UAA Fine Arts Building with TEDxAnchorage!

✨ Event Details:
TEDxAnchorage: Constellations
When: August 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Where: UAA Fine Arts Bldg. Anchorage, Alaska

🎉 Meet TEDxAnchorage Speaker, Dr. Charity Carmody!

Dr. Charity Carmody is a fourth-generation Alaskan, a dedicated leader, and a passionate advocate for children and families. She is the proud mother of four grown children and grandmother to four grandchildren. Charity’s lifelong dedication to service and leadership has earned her recognition as a Champion for Children Awardee from the Alaska Children’s Trust, a Top 40 Under 40 honoree, and an Athena Society inductee for her outstanding contributions to her community.

Charity holds a Doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University and earned her BA and MBA from Alaska Pacific University, where she now shares her expertise as an adjunct business professor. Her published research on the Family First Prevention Services Act reflects her commitment to evidence-based change, and she recently released her first book, Go Ahead Girl, a no-nonsense guide to empowering women to build the lives they truly want.

As the owner of Carmody Insurance Agency in Anchorage, Charity balances entrepreneurship with her passion for community impact. She co-founded Beacon Hill, Safe Families for Children Alaska, and the Heart Gallery of Alaska, initiatives that have touched countless lives across the state. Today, she serves as the founder and Executive Director of the Alaska Impact Alliance, a statewide coalition of prevention practitioners working together to strengthen families and communities. Through her consulting company, Beautiful Step Consulting, Charity provides strategic guidance and implementation expertise to organizations ready to make a lasting difference.

Whether she’s teaching, leading, writing, or advocating, Charity Carmody brings a relentless drive to create meaningful change for the people and causes she cares about.

🎤 Watch Charity speak on August 15th at the UAA Fine Arts Building with TEDxAnchorage!

✨ Event Details:
TEDxAnchorage: Constellations
When: August 15, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Where: UAA Fine Arts Bldg. Anchorage, Alaska