TEDxNormal

🎭 "Evil is Dead."

Adam Ruble closed out TEDxNormal 2026 on April 11th with a provocation: the labels "good" and "bad" obscure more than they reveal. In a community shaped by two universities and countless storytellers, Adam invited us to see the complexity in every person we meet — including the ones we'd rather write off.

🎥 Adam's talk is one of NINE you'll want to revisit. And there are years of past talks waiting for you, too.

🔍 Explore every speaker, watch past talks, and discover what's next

👉 https://tedxnormal.net

Photographs produced by:
Charles Green Photography
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https://charles-green.smugmug.com/

🌱 Success isn't earned at the start. It isn't earned at the finish. It's earned in the messy middle.

Julie Navickas brought the entire TEDxNormal audience right into that messy middle on April 11th — the unglamorous stretch of every worthwhile journey. Bloomington-Normal knows it well: students reinventing themselves, founders pivoting, Fortune 500 teams transforming. We live there.

🙌 The TEDxNormal team lives in the messy middle year-round building this event — and we'd love your help.

🤝 Volunteer for TEDxNormal 2027

👉 https://tedxnormal.net/about-us/contact/

Photographs produced by:
Charles Green Photography
https://www.instagram.com/crg_mojo/
https://charles-green.smugmug.com/