AC Associate Director of advising delivers TED Talk at Texas State University VIDEO: AC Associate Director of advising delivers TED Talk at Texas State University By Tamlyn Cochran | February 8, 2021 at 2:31 PM CST - Updated February 8 at 5:29 PM AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Amarillo College Associate Director of advising, Melodie Graves was chosen to deliver at TED Talk on Saturday, Feb. 13 at Texas State University. Melodie Graves was by her own admission one extremely timid college student – at first. “I wouldn’t talk to anybody,” the associate director of advising at Amarillo College admits. “As a freshman I was terribly shy.” Graves will be the first of seven speakers featured at the university’s fifth annual TEDx event, which this year will be presented virtually from the performing Arts Center on the university’s main campus in San Marcos.