Cloe Shasha

Cloe is a connector with a love of bringing people together, design, science, technology, writing, curating experiences, and building communities. She works at TED Conferences, LLC on speaker research, community outreach, and conference production. She is the co-founder of Global Leadership Lab, a network of leaders around the world who are driving innovative change. Cloe graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a degree in cognitive psychology and continues to work with the admissions department to interview applicants. She is a StartingBloc Fellow. She has been a logo and web designer, a cognitive psychology researcher, a solar engineering document translator from English to French at The Barefoot College, an industrial design researcher for Ross Lovegrove, a commissioned child portrait painter, an illustrator for Scientific American, and a news journalist for ABC News and small print newspapers. She founded and organized TEDxMiddlebury and helped launch an accelerator called The Bold Academy. Cloe is on the advisory board of Talks on Law and is on the committee for Claudia Chan's S.H.E. Summit Week. She loves to match people with job opportunities, dance, sing, take photographs, travel, and explore the outdoors. She speaks English, French, Spanish, and is proficient in German.