#TEDxCOS 2021 | January Salon

An Online Event focused around Restorative Justice

When: January 23rd from 2 -5pm

Our next completely online event will be held early in 2021 on January 23rd. Watch as those with experience in the Restorative Justice community share their stories, viewable as a YouTube Livestream instead of our typical all-day conference.

Think of your attendance in this Salon as a chance to host a carefully curated global dinner party digitally in your own home. We ask that you dress up accordingly. On this very special evening, you will make new friends, deepen existing connections, and like all TEDx events, it might just shift the way you see the world.

Speakers

Dr. Debra J. Dean

Dr. Dean is concerned with this country’s incivility and proposes a 5-step process to sit down and have THE conversation for restorative justice. She has 25+ years of experience in corporate with responsibilities including, but not limited to, business transformation and operations excellence. She is an expert at bringing the right people to the table to talk about challenging topics. She is a published researcher with work related to faith at work, followership, organizational metaphors, respectful pluralism, and social responsibility. She is a sought-after speaker on topics of faith at work and diversity & inclusion. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. Dean holds many titles including the 2020 Colorado Springs Business Journal Woman of Influence, Most Influential Business Consultancy CEO, Operational Excellence Leader of the Year, and Top Female Leader of the Year.

Juaquin Mobley

A Denizen of both Colorado Springs and New York Juaquin Mobley has a degree in merchandising and management, with several certifications from the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) located in New York City. He is currently the Vice President of Programs for CommunityWorks, a community-based organization that facilitates government-funded programs for at-risk young and mature adults in underserved communities. Juaquin is the owner of several business initiatives such as The Community Barbershop, The community tree service, American seal coat, and Works of Art studios in South East Colorado Springs, CO.

Mallori DeSalle

Mallori DeSalle is a licensed mental health counselor, nationally certified counselor, medication-assisted treatment specialist, and an internationally certified prevention specialist. Over the last 20 years, she has worked in mental health, substance abuse, and prevention fields with people of all ages.  Through this work, she became aware of the power of affirmations, and how lifting people up within counseling can invite others to consider a change. Within Indiana University, Ms. DeSalle serves Prevention Insights (a center at IUB) as the Director for SBIRT Implementation and Lead Motivational Interviewing (MI) Trainer. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Ms. DeSalle provides training and technical support for communication skills, substance use treatment and mental health-related areas to multidisciplinary audiences both nationally and internationally. Her strength-based approach helps learners how to integrate affirmations, and change talk into their everyday practice. In addition to her work in the field of communication, Ms. DeSalle will complete her certification as a humor professional through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH) in 2021. Integrating humor into her work invites levity into her training and conversations about change.  She is a member of the Board of Directors for AATH and also serves as the Vice President of the Cottey College Alumnae Association Board of Directors.  Mallori is also a mother, a terrible cook, and a wonderful travel partner. She loves to meet new people, taste Oreos from around the world, and laugh. Mallori invites people’s strengths to speak louder than their challenges. She has learned about the art, science, and power of affirmations in her professional and personal journey.

Rick Raddatz

Rick began his career at Microsoft in the 1980s and then became a successful serial entrepreneur in the early 2000s. In 2006, Rick put his business ventures on hold and dedicated himself full time to finding a solution to our political divide. Since then, Rick has traveled the nation many times, talked to thousands of people from all points of view, and consulted with hundreds of PhDs. In his presentation, Rick will share what he learned about our political divide on his journey. Normally we think of restorative justice as something that is needed at the individual level or the community level.  In Rick’s presentation, he challenges us to think bigger as he tries to tackle the question of how to heal our political divide.  E.g., How do we restore justice on a scale this big?  How can we restore justice when we’ve never truly had justice?  How can we achieve justice when even reasonable people can’t agree? In Rick’s presentation, Rick will propose a new, more complete way to view all of society’s biggest issues, along with a proposal for how we might make real progress.

Danielle Barton

Danielle is an entrepreneur focused on innovative ways to grow her business while giving back to the community she was raised in. She is the owner of Clean Break Cleaning Services, as well as Danielle Barton’s story, a platform to discuss life’s challenges surrounding incarceration. Danielle is driven by the desire to evoke change through her story. Danielle is on the board of The Success Collective, a group of entrepreneurs in Colorado Springs that focuses on community support and involvement.  As a Colorado Springs native, Danielle and her family spend as much time taking advantage of all the beautiful things the city has to offer. What Danielle enjoys most is making connections with people who have experienced trauma and setbacks. Her goal is to break down the stigmas that stand in the way of success after failure.  Danielle is trying to use her story to challenge the way we think about incarceration as a community. She wants to reinvent the outlook of personal responsibility and community obligation to find a meeting ground that allows room for success. She hopes to be an example of the change that can happen when we all work together to make it possible.