Cultivating your creativity here: Catherine Cuellar at TEDxTurtleCreekWomen

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• published: 18 Dec 2013
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Catherine Cuellar serves as executive director of the Dallas Arts District, the largest contiguous urban cultural neighborhood in the United States and world headquarters of the Global Cultural Districts Network. For two decades she has worked as an award-winning multimedia journalist for national public radio stations and programs, PegasusNews.com, Sojourners magazine and The Dallas Morning News among others. Previously, Ms. Cuellar spent five years as communications manager for the sixth-largest electric power grid in the U.S., Oncor. She handled crisis communications in more than 400 Texas cities and towns; social media engaging more than 7 million customers; and employee communications reaching almost 4,000 employees, retirees and contractors. Currently Ms. Cuellar serves on the boards of the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Rhodes College Alumni Association and the session of Elders at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. She is also a contributing author to the Dallas Noir short fiction anthology published in 2013 by Akashic Books and a Next Generation Project Texas Fellow at The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin. Cuellar was recognized among the Dallas Business Journal's 2013 "40 Under 40," was a 2011 White House Fellows regional finalist, and was honored in 2007 as one of the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce's Five Outstanding Young Dallasites. 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)