Temple Grandin talks to cows…and she’s coming to the Shasta College Theatre and the State Theatre in Red Bluff to talk to students and the public about her life and experiences in the fields of autism and animal behavior. Dr. Grandin is a best-selling author and dynamic speaker on autism and animal welfare. Be sure to catch Temple Grandin on Thursday, February 22nd at 6:30pm at the Shasta College Theatre and again on Friday, February 23rd at 10:30am at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. Both events are free to attend but signup to reserve your spot for this popular event at https://temple-grandin.eventbrite.com
Dr. Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University and has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her life was brought to the screen with the HBO full-length film “Temple Grandin”, starring Claire Danes. Temple Grandin has a 2010 TED Lecture titled “The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds.” She has also been featured on the BBC special “The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow”, ABC’s “Primetime Live”, “The Today Show” and more. Dr. Grandin developed her talents into a successful career as a livestock-handling equipment designer, one of very few in the world. She also speaks on both autism and cattle handling. Dr. Grandin’s current bestselling book on autism is “The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s”. She also authored “Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships”; “Animals Make Us Human”; “Animals in Translation”; “Thinking in Pictures”; and “Emergence: Labeled Autistic”.
Special thanks to the Shasta College Ag Leadership Club, Deputy Sector Navigator for Agriculture and Red Bluff High School for bringing Temple Grandin to our community.
