KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Child Psychologist & Children's Author; Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco; Director of Dissemination and Implementation for Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)

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

Psychologist, Author Known for "The Way of Boys" & "The Power of Agency"; Expert in Child & Family Psychology

Education Innovation Leader & Hands-On Learning Advocate; Founder of Brightworks School & Tinkering School; Author

Education Policy Advocate, Social Impact Advisor, Children’s Book Author, Film Producer & Public Servant

Neuroscientist & Pediatrician; Director of the Neurocognition, Early Experience & Development (NEED) Lab at Columbia University; Expert on Childhood Brain Development

Director at the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute; Former Board Member of Prevent Child Abuse America

Renowned Author & Lecturer Known for His Influential Work in Education, Parenting & Human Behavior

Forensic Psychiatry Expert & Physician; Chair of Psychiatry at Morehouse School of Medicine; Founder of Lorio Forensics

Psychiatrist, Author & Senior Fellow of the ChildTrauma Academy

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

Professor, Author, Resilience Trainer & Teacher Advocate

Youth Leadership, Education & Empowerment Advocate; Future of Work Expert; Social Entrepreneur; Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project

Educational Equity Proponent & Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education

Founder & President at 21st-Century Guide School; Child Education Specialist

Motivational Speaker & Trainer on Professional Development, Workplace Wellness & Mental Health Awareness; Authority on Leadership, Education & Youth Development

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Researcher; Associate Professor of Life Sciences; and Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Neuroproteomics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Education Expert, Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Sociologist, Best-Selling Author, Comedian

Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.