Theme: Growing Pains

TEDxCushingAcademy is a space for students, faculty and alumni of Cushing Academy to share ideas that they are passionate about. The speakers have grounded their ideas in the theme 'Growing Pains' and are sharing their ideas through the use of personal stories, research and images.

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Alex Moroch

Founder of FEM Marketing

Alex Moroch is a content leader in the Los Angeles community for all things related to social impact, beauty and sports marketing. Her career started in Media Planning for the QSR giant - McDonald's overseeing digital media for the greater Southwest Region. Today, at her agency the services include, but are not limited to: Strategy, Content Creation, Media Planning & Buying and Analytical Reporting.

Breton Lorway

Student

Breton Lorway is a four-year senior at Cushing Academy, and a day student from Princeton, Massachusetts. Being from a small woodsy town, she’s grown up learning to love the earth. She is excited to voice this passion of hers at the TEDx conference, and hopes to further her relationship with the earth by majoring in environmental studies in college.

Mary-Frances Hanover

Science Teacher

Mary Frances Hanover is a new faculty member at Cushing Academy. She is an active TED talk listener and was honored and grateful to be asked to be part of one herself. She is a lifelong science enthusiast and has always been an advocate for venturing outside of your comfort zone and expanding your scope of knowledge. She thoroughly enjoyed exploring and learning about the chemistry of happiness and hopes to implement her new found knowledge into her own life habits.

Tyler Kolle

English Teacher

Tyler Kolle is currently a member of the English faculty at Cushing Academy. He holds an academic and personal fascination with our human impulse to reanimate the past.