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June Cohen | The Great Remembering: A Great Unlock for Creativity
Welcome June Cohen to the Kaufman Music Center's stage!
June Cohen is a pioneer in media & technology, best known as the co-creator of TED Talks. During her 11 years at TED (2005-2016), June co-hosted the flagship event- working with hundreds of speakers on their talks - & launched TED Talks online, turning the conference into a global media brand, with 1 billion views/year under her tenure. Before TED, she was part of the team that launched Wired magazine's pioneering website HotWired.com. After TED, she cofounded WaitWhat, a media company creating beloved, award-winning podcasts, like Meditative Story, Masters of Scale, Spark & Fire & Should This Exist? She also created The Possible, the first documentary series filmed in VR. After a career focused entirely on the future, June's now convinced that the most powerful ideas worth spreading can be found in the past. She's author of The Great Remembering: Powerful Ancient Practices - And the New Science Bringing Them Back (Oct 2026) June holds a B.A. from Stanford University, where she was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily. She's earned 100+ industry awards for her work.
Performance by Charlie Levine
Charlie Levine is a live typewriter poet, acrobatic partner dancer, & improv pianist. He's done live underscoring for talks at the World Economic Forum, acrobatic partner dance at House of Yes, & typewriter poetry at weddings, art shows, & conferences around the country. He is also not sure how he does all of this @possibly_poet, @possiblypianist, & @possiblyacrobat.
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