“The very first Tide Talk was given this week two years ago,” said Joey Weed, a junior serving as Tide Talks’ new president.
Weed joined the executive team in October, helping with Tide Talks IX under outgoing president Kevin Pabst.
“Through this event, we are celebrating the legacy of previous speakers, ideas, and events in addition to four phenomenal new students around campus. Tide Talks X represents where we’ve been and where we’re going,” Weed said.
Beginning in spring 2013, Tide Talks was designed for students by students to allow members of the UA community to share their experiences, trials and successes with other students.
“I believe Tide Talks plays a very important role on campus,” said former President Kevin Pabst, a senior and founding member of Tide Talks.
Pabst and Weed encourage all members of the community to attend, as it will be the biggest Tide Talks event yet, said Pabst.
Carlton Tarpley, a senior majoring in finance and economics who served as the Tide Talks Vice President with Pabst, said what brought her to Tide Talks was its mission and place on campus.
“Tide Talks gives students an opportunity to share their passion,” she said. “I feel lucky to have worked with this amazing Tide Talks team, and I am excited to see how the 2015-2016 executive team is going to grow this organization.”
Tide Talks wants to continue its mission as a platform for students to share revolutionary ideas.
“In the past few years, this campus has seen tremendous change, and Tide Talks wants to empower students to continue sharing ideas that will make this campus, and this world, great,” Weed said. “This organization wants to contribute to the culture of UA being a place of inclusion, creativity, scholarship, empathy, risk-taking and growth.”
