Do companies need to atone for their historic participation in wars, genocides, slavery, or ecological destruction? Sarah Federman, a former business executive turned conflict resolution professor, has chased answers to this question for fifteen years. She studies how companies respond to their pasts, or don’t, and why this matters. #tedxsandiego #TEDx #TEDxSpeaker #Genocides #CorporateAccountabilityDr. Sarah Federman, an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies, studies the intersection of business and mass atrocity. She wrote the award-winning Transformative Negotiation: Strategies for Everyday Change and Equitable Futures (University of California Press, 2023) and the award-winning Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability (University of Wisconsin 2021).In addition to two co-authored anthologies, she has also written for the Harvard Business Review and Journal of Business Ethics. Federman testified twice before Congress concerning the responsibility of U.S. banks to respond to their slavery ties. Federman comes to this work after a decade as an international advertising executive working in over 10 countries, engaging with companies such as Google, Discovery, Bloomberg and NFL.This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx