Brainstorm Speaker Series: Temple Grandin

Presented by:

Teton County Library, and The Jackson Hole News&Guide

Join the Teton County Library, Jackson Hole News & Guide and The Center for the inaugural Brainstorm speaker series. Brainstorm speaker series intends to ignite conversation and curiosity!

Temple Grandin will discuss three different types of thinking that are discussed in her new book, Visual Thinking.  The different types of thinking are object visualization, visual spatial mathematical minds, and verbal word thinking.  To solve problems, the three types of thinkers need to work together because they have complementary skills.

Temple Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed for handling livestock are used by many companies around the world. She has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs that are used by McDonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods, and other corporations. Temple has appeared on numerous TV shows such as 20/20 and Prime Time. Her books include: Thinking in Pictures, Livestock Handling and Transport and The Autistic Brain. Her books Animals in Translation and Visual Thinking have been on the New York Times Bestseller List. Temple was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in September 2017 and in 2022 was named a Colorado State University Distinguished Professor.