KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Political Advisor, Former Director of Speechwriting for President Obama; Author of "Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America"

Sociologist, Author & Professor of Sociology; Academic Director, National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity; Podcast Co-Host, "Professor-ing"

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City & Regional Planning & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Authority on Urban Planning & Housing Policy

Sociolinguistic Researcher & Author of "Language and Learning in the Digital Age"; Emeritus Regents Professor at Arizona State University

Science & Technology Policy Leader, Former Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden & Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Educator; Author; Creator of Project GRIT; Professor of Sociology; Advocate for Marginalized Minority Youth

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

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

Professor of Sociology & Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University

Founder and Lead Literacy Consultant at NQC Literacy; Adjunct Professor at New York University

Award-Winning Astrophysicist & Astrobiologist; Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell

Professor of Communication & Political Science, University of Delaware; Author of "Wrong" and "Irony and Outrage"; TED Speaker & Improv Comedian

Professor of BioSciences at Rice University; Co-Author of "A City on Mars" & "Soonish"

Sociologist, Author & Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory at the University of Virginia

Author of "Keenagers: Telling a New Story about Aging"; Keynote Speaker, Educator, Family Caregiving & Aging Expert

Tech Futurist; Behavioral Scientist; Organizational Transformation Expert in the AI Era; Business School Dean & Professor

Senior Vice President of Microsoft Healthcare; Visiting Professor in Healthcare at Northwestern

Director of Research & Faculty Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania; Educator, Instructional Designer & Facilitator; Co-Author of "The Great Upheaval"

Belonging Researcher, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Center for Educational Excellence at the University of San Diego; Author of "College Belonging; 33 Simple Strategies for Faculty"

Associate Professor of Education & Social Work and Co-Chair of the Rossier School of Education PhD Program at the University of Southern California