TEDxCU is an independently organized TED event at the University of Colorado Boulder, featuring talks from students, faculty, and local thought leaders. Focused on sharing ideas worth spreading, the event brings together the CU and Boulder communities for a night of storytelling, innovation, and connection.

Kira Warren was the Marketing Lead for TEDxCU during the 2024–2025 season, where she oversaw promotional strategy, visual branding, and audience engagement across platforms. She is now the event’s Co-Curator, helping shape the speaker lineup, creative direction, and overall experience of the event. Her work reflects a deep commitment to impactful storytelling and collaborative, community-driven design.

2025: anomaly

  • Logo

    Kira designed the logo for 2025, which was featured across the event, from stickers to programs to slides.

  • Brand Guide

    As Marketing lead, Kira designed the brand guide that would determine the fonts, color palette and branding used for marketing, stage design and every aspect of the event.

  • Theme announcement

    Kira designed this graphic which was used to announce the theme “Anomaly” and was subsequently used for marketing and website branding.

Event Slides

The final slide deck for the 2025 event had 140+ slides. These are the types of slides that were present, designed by Kira.

Transition Slide

Sponsor Slide

Speaker Introduction Slide

Fine Arts Performer Slide

Speaker Introducers Slide

Behind the Scenes Intermission Video

Posters

In order to market, posters were created to be put up around CU’s campus and the city of Boulder. Kira designed this series to be strategically placed in locations that would be relevant to certain talks

Dr. Matthew King Slides

In addition to creating the main event slides, a speaker, Dr. Matthew King, hired Kira to create his slides to effectively, visually, communicate statistics

These two slides visually demonstrate the wealth disparity in America, that the top 1% hold over 90% of the nations wealth.

These 5 slides are a timeline that visually demonstrate the cyclical nature of capitalism.