TED Fellows Program

We are so excited about TED Fellow Manu Prakash and Foldscope's new MicroRealms Projector, a portable high-resolution projection microscope providing STEM learning opportunities in any setting! Check out their Kickstarter campaign before it's too late and get your hands on one of these magical tools.

We are thrilled to announce the 2024 cohort of TED Fellows, whose work spans five continents and represents 11 countries — including, for the first time, Georgia. This year’s TED Fellows include an entrepreneur who is reshaping health care in conflict zones, an engineer who created a cold chain solution saving lives in rural African communities and a scientist pioneering new, safer AI technologies — to name just a few. Each TED Fellow was selected for their remarkable achievements, the potential impact of their work and their commitment to community building. TED is honored to welcome these new Fellows into this dynamic global network of 500+ Fellows creating meaningful change in their communities and the world.

Soundtrack for the week: TED Fellow Blinky Bill's We Cut Keys 2!

The first 36 speakers for TED2024 were just announced and TED Fellow Anjan Sundaram is on the list! We can't wait to have him take the red dot in April and tell us about his recent work following the courageous and dangerous work of indigenous climate defenders in Mexico.

The Financial Times just launched a new visual investigations team which will be led by TED Fellow Alison Killing. Killing is the first architect to win a Pulitzer Prize, which she received in 2021 for her investigative journalism that uncovered a secret network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China.

What do an astrophysicist, a labor organizer, an entrepreneur, an ethnomusicologist, and an architect all have in common? They're all TED Fellows at #TEDWomen! TED Fellows traveled from Ukraine, Pakistan, Kenya, Chile, India, the Philippines, and more -- for three days of passionate conversations and rousing sessions here in Atlanta. Erika Hamden spoke about her unique professional journey as an astrophysicist who builds telescopes; quantum physicist Shohini Ghose did a reading from her new book #Herspacehertime; sex educator @Kaz Lucas hosted a workshop on digital intimacy; and author Laurel Braitman gave a heart-wrenching talk on grief and spoke about how there can be no pleasure without pain, or joy without sadness. #TEDFellowsforpresident Kyra D. Gaunt, PhD Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, PhD Alicia Chong Rodriguez Ana Gabela Jess Kutch Sandhya Naidu Janardhan Olga Yurkova Zubaida Bai Faisal Chohan Xavier Alpasa Antionette Carroll, M.A. Laura Boykin Okalebo Jae Rhim Lee Asher Hasan MD Dr. Catharine Young Allegra Pearl Lily James Olds

Ever wonder how the water you flush down the toilet could become drinking water? With climate change we'll likely all be increasingly familiar with this process. TED Fellow Francis de los Reyes III, Ph.D., BCEEM walks us through Singapore's innovative national wastewater recycling program in this informative TED-Ed Lesson.