Professor Beth Burkstrand-Reid was one of the eleven speakers at the inaugural TEDxUNL event held Friday, September 14 in the Sheldon Museum of Art. Burkstrand-Reid's TEDx talk, "Nebraska: Center of the Country, Center of the Controversy," addressed how Nebraska plays a lead role in the development of social policies relating to reproductive and marital rights. Other TEDxUNL speakers included Adam Morfeld, '12, of Nebraskans for Civic Reform.