I have lived in Everett for nearly 20 years and am overjoyed to be able to organize TEDxWomen Everett event. I fell in love with "TED talks" in 2009 when a college instructor showed Ken Robinson's talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" A short time later I saw Brene Brown's TEDxKansasCity talk on vulnerability and as many people have said: it changed my life. To bring these talks around ideas that matter - making connections within ourselves, our families, our communities, and the greater world just seems to be a really important thing to do, right now.