Future Stories for Offenders: Lisa Culp at TEDxLCSC

As a director for five non-profit initiatives over the past twenty-five years, Lisa Culp has been involved in designing and implementing successful programs to meet the needs of families and children in Idaho. With expertise in the areas of human behavior, business leadership & communication strategies, along with socio-economic stratification topics, Lisa Culp currently manages her own speaking and consulting business and teaches as an adjunct instructor for several colleges in the area. In 2012/2013 she spent the year instructing minimum and maximum security offenders at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, WA for Walla Walla Community College's Associate's Program. Lisa Culp has been involved with many anti-poverty efforts, including a two year opportunity working as the Director for the Bridge the Gap Project through a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, serving under-resourced college students. Lisa believes that her life's purpose is to encourage others to use their gifts and abilities meaningfully and she seeks to embolden her students and audiences to discover and use those gifts daily.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)