KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Fellow, Lumina Foundation; Former President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Senior Research Fellow on Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, Child Education Specialist

High School Principal in North Philadelphia; Education & Leadership Development Expert

Award-Winning Educator; Keynote Speaker; Advocate for Homeless Youth

Founder of aha! Process, Inc. & Author of "A Framework for Understanding Poverty"

Women's Worth & Wellness Expert, TEDx Audacious Leadership Transformational Speaker

Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project; Youth Empowerment & Education Advocate

Ambassador of Inspiration

Former Teacher; Now An Instructional Designer and Author on Effective Instruction on Learning

Executive Director of Next River & Author, "How We Show Up"

International Child Welfare Advocate, Master of Social Work, Foster Parent & Author of the Best-Selling Memoir "Three Little Words"

Co-Founder & Former Executive Director of the Forum for Youth Investment

U.S. Army Veteran & Author

Co-Founder of Project Eye-To-Eye & Learning Disabilities Advocate; Recipient of The Harry S. Truman Fellowship for Public Services

Author, Speaker, Youth Advocate & Child Welfare Professional

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Actress, Producer, Director, Writer, American Ballet Theatre Alum & Founder of Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan (RFCPP)

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health