Add Verb Director Cathy Plourde to speak at Institute for Civic Leadership Forum

UNE’s Add Verb Productions Founder and Director Cathy Plourde will be a featured speaker in The Institute for Civic Leadership forum, “TEDxDirigo Engage,” where Maine innovators and thought leaders will share how they are engaging in ideas to make an impact here and across the globe.  The event will be held on Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Hannaford Hall (Abromson Center) at the USM Portland Campus.

In addition to Plourde, Maine innovators who will participate include U.S. Rep Chellie Pingree, Robin Alden, Josh Broder, Lyn Mikel Brown, Bill Cumming, Susan Conley, Raphael diLuzio, Mohammed Dini, Andy Happel, Claire Hirschmann, John Marshall, Daniel Minter, Liz Neptune, Bonnie Rukin and Ned Swain. Topics they represent are: fisheries, broadband, food policy, the arts, community, immigrant youth, Native health, design science, sustainability, prisons and gender. The event will also feature live musical entertainment, global TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talk videos and a reception.

For more about the speakers and how to apply to attend: www.tedxdirigo.com.  
 

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.