KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

International Education Consultant Specializing in Inclusion, Diversity, Team Collaboration, Innovation & Education Technology

Clinician, Author, Education Advocate, and Mental Health Authority; President & CEO at Resiliency Inc.

Co-Founder & Executive Director of UrbEd Inc., Advocate for Public Education & Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar

Executive Director of The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Founder of Teach and Transform; Anti-Bias & Anti-Racist Educator

Former President & CEO of American Indian Higher Education Consortium

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

Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at UC Berkeley

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

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

Founder of StudentsFirst & Education Reform Advocate; Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Scholar, Artist, Poet, Activist & Public Intellectual

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

Managing Director of Uncommon Schools & Author of "Teach Like a Champion"

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.

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

Founder & Executive Director of L.O.V.E. Mentoring; Social Entrepreneur; Changemaker