DR. KATHY REICHS : Forensic anthropologist, author and
producer of the hit Fox TV series, Bones. From teaching FBI Agents how to detect and recover human remains to separating and identifying commingled body parts in her Montreal lab, forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs turns her dramatic work into mesmerizing forensic thrillers. She has testified at the UN Tribunal on Genocide in Rwanda, exhumed a mass grave in Guatemala, identified war dead from WW II, Korea, Southeast Asia and the World Trade Centre after 9/11. Follow on Twitter @KathyReichs athy Reichs’s first novel Déjà Dead catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her other Temperance Brennan books include Death du Jour, Deadly Décisions, Fatal Voyage, Grave Secrets, Bare Bones, Monday Mourning, Cross Bones, Break No Bones, Bones to Ashes, Devil Bones, 206 Bones, Spider Bones, Flash and Bones, Bones Are Forever, Bones of the Lost, Bones Never Lie, Speaking in Bones and the Temperance Brennan short story collection, The Bone Collection.
Dr. Reichs is one of 80 forensic anthropologists currently certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. She served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, and is currently a member of the National Police Services Advisory Council in Canada. She is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx