KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

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

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

Internationally Recognized Graffiti Artist, Entrepreneur & Bestselling Author of "Unthink"

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator Known for "Thank You, Mr. Falker"; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

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.

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Author & Phonics Specialist; Benchmark Education Company & Associate Publisher, Reycraft Books

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Director, Storytelling Consultant, Former Pixar Animator, Story Artist, Creativity Expert & Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the "Grisha Trilogy"

Emmy-Nominated Writer, Producer & Story Designer

Educator & Author of "The Book Whisperer" and "Reading in the Wild"

Journalist & Bestselling Author

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Young Poet, Educator, Activist & TED Speaker Known For "High School Training Ground"

Writer & Editor; Author of the "Daily Rituals" Books