Brenna Pavlidis

Sales & Event Coordinator, Western Region

Brenna Pavlidis, Sales & Event Coordinator, Western Region, assists speakers in spreading their incredible ideas to Speakers’ Spotlight’s amazing clients.

When she isn’t planning her next trip to the mountains, you can find her hula hooping, playing the ukulele, or discussing politics and global issues.

Brenna is a graduate from Western University, where she majored in both Philosophy and Classical Studies.

Original Spoken Word Poetry: Spelling Father

If I Should Have a Daughter - TED

TED2014: The Danger of Silence

Dispatches from the Edge

Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America’s most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.

The Book of Negroes

Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves—Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic “Book of Negroes.” Aminata’s eventual return to Sierra Leone—passing ships carrying thousands of slaves bound for America—is an engrossing account of an obscure but important chapter in history that saw 1,200 former slaves embark on a harrowing back-to-Africa odyssey.

Under An Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity

In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a reporter for CBC, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul when she was kidnapped by armed men. She was forced to hike hours through the mountains until they reached a village; the kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. “No,” she said. “I am not going down there.” For over a month, Fung lived in that hole, which was barely tall enough to stand up in, nursing her injuries, praying and writing in a notebook. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung’s days in captivity, surviving on cookies and juice, from the “grab” to her eventual release.