Elena Crescia is the curator and speaker coach of the Hearth Summit in Rhinebeck, NY, organized by the Omega Institute and Harlem Wellness Center. She brings a deep commitment to impactful storytelling, diversity, and social change. She serves as the Wellbeing events advisor at The Wellbeing Project.
Elena is the organizer, curator, and speaker coach for TEDxSãoPaulo. A TED speaker herself and country director for Clubes TED Ed in Brazil, Elena is organizing and curating TED Health Sao Paulo 2026. She works as a curation consultant for globally recognized conferences, including the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, SOCAP in San Francisco, the Global Hearth Summit in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the Artivism Conference in Salvador. She was the program curator for The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change 2022 in Bilbao.
Elena holds a master’s degree of International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York, and a master’s in Financial Evaluation of Development Projects from Université Sorbonne in Paris. She completed the Impact Investing Manager course offered by ANDE, JPMorgan, and Santa Clara University.
A multilingual communicator fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, Elena is the founder of Ideas Talk, Editora de Ideias, and Portfolia.