Denise Druce has a self-described TED addiction. “I would rather listen to TED than just about anything else, morning, noon and night, when I’m getting ready in the shower, when I’m driving my car,” she said.
Druce applied and was rejected, twice, to speak at TEDxSaltLakeCity. This year, for the first time, the event has a majority of female speakers, and Druce is one of them.
“The last couple of years, we’ve been so close to 50/50, to gender equity in our lineup,” co-organizer Becki Thatcher said. “But every year, it’s just been like one or two male heavy.