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We're fostering thought leadership for community wellbeing !

Join the TWU Quality Enhancement Plan to see cool examples of thought leadership at Texas Womans University and learn how to amplify your impact!

10/29/2026

Check out TWU students and alumni sharing their big ideas and inspiring stories at the Dream Makers Soiree last week! 🥂

Capping off a week of events for Dream Big Festival, a small selection of former speakers and AYI Elevator Pitch competition winners shared their stories of resilience and hope with distinguished alumni, showing them what makes TWU so special and how they can support our community in the future!

In 3-5 minutes, these stellar speakers drew in distracted crowds, captured their attention, and garnered plenty of applause, encouragement, and questions about their work! We can't wait to see what else comes out of these dynamic speakers in the future. 👏🏽

In order of photos:
🎤 Grad student & elevator pitch competition winner Sofia Rubinstein Costanzo shares why we need endometriosis research now
🎤 Grad Student and elevator pitch competition winner Reed Cook illuminates what it really means to gamify literacy education.
🎤 Grad Student, Nurse, and TEDxTWU 2026 speaker Jodi Clee Kennedy shared her inspiring story and reminded us that resilience is built, not born.
🎤 Grad student, instructor, and TEDxTWU 2026 speaker Lillia Whittington brought her students on stage to demonstrate how sewing = community = resilience.
🎤 Alumni and English & Rhetoric educator Rochelle Gregory highlighted the importance of stories and how we tell them.

10/27/2026

We had a blast at this year's TEDxTWU salon, hosted as part of Dream Big Festival!
For a few hours, we got together with TWU alumni and community members for a very special screening of a select few talks, lively discussion, and hands-on activities, including sewing our own bookmarks and telling our stories through poetry. And we nabbed some alums to share their stories in our new podcasting booth in the Library! Stay tuned to see how we use them 👀

10/16/2026

Let's celebrate! 🎉
Join Amplify Your Impact TWU for a virtual showcase of graduate students flexing their public speaking skills and sharing their most exciting research, big ideas, and professional dreams in celebration of Texas Woman's University's 125th Anniversary!

Featuring the winners of our Summer 2026 Elevator Pitch Competition, this showcase will give you a chance to hear about the amazing work of our graduate students and ask your burning questions. Who knows? You might even hear the next big idea you’d like to get involved in… 👀

You in? Learn more at the QR code 👆 and the link in the comments 👇

10/12/2026

You are invited to a very special screening of TEDxTWU talks 🎥!

October 19th, 2026, we will gather together in the Blagg Huey Library on the TWU Denton campus to watch and discuss a small selection of talks from 2025 and 2026, thinking about how we can contribute to the spread of ideas.

Let's celebrate big ideas and bigger dreams at Texas Woman's University's during this special Dream Big Festival event, just one part of a full week of activities to celebrate 125 years!

Seats are limited, so be sure to nab your seat at the QR code 👆 or at the link in the comments👇

10/07/2026

📣TWU community members are invited to join us October 21, 2026 for a guided discussion of “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)” by Dean Spade, led by Join Dr. Stina Soderling, Assistant Professor, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies.

"Mutual Aid" explores the importance of mutual aid, what it looks like, and how to do it. 🤝

Join us to talk about how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, discuss concrete tools for how to work in groups, foster a collective decision-making process, prevent and address conflict, and deal with burnout.

Both in-person and virtual attendance is welcome! Registration open now at the QR code 👆 or at the link in the comments 👇.

09/09/2026

Join Amplify Your Impact TWU for our first book discussion of the academic year!

On September 22, 2026, Dr. Ale Babino and Dr. Rocío Almanza will discuss their book, Latina Pedagogies of Care: How Cariño Can Give Tired Teachers Power and Hope.

Join us either in-person or virtually as we talk about show how we can reclaim our humanity in and connect with community in a system that oscillates between toxic positivity and cynical despair.

You in? Register at the link in comments or the QR code below 👇

09/03/2026

You choose to study the world around you for a reason. What is it?

The #1 question scholars should ask before bringing their research, expertise, and big ideas to the world is...
what impact do you want to have in the world? 🌎
What do you want to HAPPEN because of your work?

This might be anything! You might want to support communities you care about, affect cultural change, or translate important knowledge and tools for folks that could most benefit from them. Or perhaps you'd like to build trust with people that you'd like to work with or showcase what you can do in your field!

The sky is the limit... so what will be your impact? 👀

08/24/2026

The Amplify Your Impact TWU team LOVED getting to welcome new incoming faculty to campus last week! We can’t wait to help you share your own and your students’ ideas and expertise with the world!! Welcome 😍

08/22/2026

While we're celebrating this year's Elevator Pitch competition winners... we also wanted to shout out our honorable mentions!

Our selection was difficult this year. Let's hear it for the grad students that stood out amongst the rest!

🚑 Sydney Smith, DPT student in Physical Therapy, impressed the judges in the Support This! category with her pitch to support her Health 101 business.

💪 Sarah Russ, MBA student in Business Entrepreneurship & Women in Leadership, made waves in the Support This! category with her pitch for a Resilience Training Lunch n' Learn series!

💸 Alitha D. Jones, MBA/MHA student in Business, gave judges in the Use This! category some big ideas with her pitch to engage in residential assisted living investment strategies.

🩰 Hayden Creech, MA student in Dance Education, encouraged judges in the Use This! category to try out experiential learning techniques in the Dance classroom.

👩🏾‍🏫 Ashley Guillory, PhD student in Sociology, convinced judges in the Pick Me! category that she would be an amazing fit for a Learning Development Professional role.

👩🏽‍⚕️ Emha Mariana Hinojosa, MHA student in Business Analytics, made a strong case for judges in the Pick Me! category to hire her for a fellowship or internship position in Healthcare Leadership.

This year's honorable mentions are being offered special one-on-one public speaking support for future opportunities. We can't wait to see what they'll do next!

08/18/2026

📣 A HUGE congratulations to the winners of this year's Elevator Pitch Competition!!!

Let's give a big round of applause to all three of our amazing winners! 👏 👏

🔬 Sofia Rubinstein Costanzo, a PhD student in Molecular Biology, won our Support This! category with her pitch to support endometriosis research.

🎮 Reed Alan Cook, a PhD student in Literacy, Language, & Culture, swept our Use This! category with his pitch promoting his research into gamefied design & literacy education.

👩🏼‍⚕️ Sophia Grace Parker, a PhD student in Occupational Therapy, took home the top spot in our Pick Me! category with her pitch to hire her for an occupational therapist position.

This year's winners wowed judges by giving 3-minute elevator pitches that showed off their knowledge, felt natural and unscripted, and left us wanting to learn more!!

Be sure to shout out these amazing grad students!! They're not only each winning $500 scholarships, but they're also receiving hands-on support in their public speaking for future opportunities.

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