KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Former New York Times Reporter & Columnist; Best-Selling Author of "At Home in the World" & "Labor Day"

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

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

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; Mental Health Advocate

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

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; President of the Jury of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War; Current Middle East Editor at Newsweek

Writer, Historian & Journalist Whose Work Centers on the Epistemology of Democracy

Internationally Recognized Educator & Best-Selling Author

Author of "The Center Cannot Hold;" Associate Dean of Law, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences at USC Law

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

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.

Neuroscientist & Actress, Known For "The Big Bang Theory"

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Smithsonian Institution Distinguished Scholar & Author of "Why Things Bite Back" and "Our Own Devices"

Renowned Women's Rights Attorney; Subject of Netflix Documentary "Seeing Allred"

Bestselling Author & Founder of the Third Wave Feminism Movement

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

Author of "The First Muslim," a New Look at the Life of Muhammad

Host of History Channel’s "Lost History" & "Brad Meltzer’s Decoded;" New York Times Best-Selling Author