ConnecTED Columbus

Join host Josh Mink in his next NICHE conversation with Ohio State’s fluffiest student organization on campus: Buckeye Furs! Discover how art can build confidence, foster friendship, and create a space where everyone belongs.

Welcome to a new and exciting season of ConnecTED Columbus! With more than 1,400 student organizations at Ohio State, host Josh Mink dives into conversations with some of the campus’s most unique and niche clubs, each sharing their own ideas worth spreading. In this episode, Josh chats with the official student section for OSU athletics: the nationally recognized and award-winning Block-O!

Join Laney and Josh as they close out the year with Preksha Rao, the 2024-25 Curator of TEDxOhioStateUniversity. Learn more about her takeaways from her "TEDxperiences" and the importance of spreading new ideas in the face of change.

In this episode, join Millena and Sarayu as they chat with TedxOhioStateUniversity's Logistics Director, Mateo Zevallos, about planning and executing the main event, Echo. Also, hear from some Echo attendees share their exciting experiences throughout the event.

Listen in on Josh's conversation with Dr. Terrance Hinton, one of TEDxOhioStateUniversity's Main Event speakers, and his coach, about Dr. Hinton's practice of bringing education to incarcerated individuals and how they developed his work for a TEDx talk!

Interested in hearing Dr. Hinton's idea worth spreading LIVE? Visit go.osu.edu/echo2025 for more info!

Sit down with Sarayu and Josh as they chat with Dr. Jaclyn Caccese, one of TedxOhioStateUniversity's main event speakers, and her coach Anuha about Dr. Caccese's specialization in traumatic head injury in law enforcement and the process of bringing her idea to the main stage!

Want to hear Dr. Jaclyn's idea worth spreading along with our other incredible speakers? Check out go.osu.edu/echo2025 to learn more!

Join Josh as he talks with Brian Finney about his 25+ years of experience working in the animation industry and his journey getting to his current position as the Director of Motion Graphics and Animation at Spacejunk, a full-service motion graphics and live-action studio in downtown Columbus!

In this episode, Josh and Laney chat with Brahm Canare to gain an OSU student’s personal and professional perspective on animation. As an intern at Spacejunk, a Columbus-based boutique motion graphics studio, and the current president of OSU’s Animation Club, listen in on local resources to engage with film and the arts.

Join Sarayu and Millena as they chat with Isabel and Carissa, two students who went to the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Listen to them describe their unique experiences in the rooms were change is constructed, international climate policy, and how it feels to be a buckeye far from home.

This week, join hosts Sarayu and Amelia for the second episode of the ConnecTED Columbus series about fitness and athletics at The Ohio State University. We sit down with Grant Sears as we talk about Ohio State’s unique collaboration with Nike through the Nike U Move Program!