Linda Ellerbee

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo

Founders of the Racial Literacy Non-Profit CHOOSE & Authors of "Tell Me Who You Are"

Patty Wright and Kate DiMeo

Literacy Consultants & Coaches; Units of Study Staff Developers

Hilderbrand Pelzer III

Multi-Award Winning Principal, Author of "Unlocking Potential: Organizing a School Inside a Prison" & Educational Equity Champion

R. Dwayne Betts

Founder of Freedom Reads, Poet, Author, Memoirist & Teacher

Lisa Nielsen

Director of Digital Literacy & Inclusion in NYC's Education Department; Known for Award-Winning Blog "The Innovative Educator"

Steve Chiger

Director of Literacy at Uncommon Schools; Author of "Love & Literacy"

Pandemic Classroom: Dispatches from Teachers

Edwin De La Rosa

Ph.D. Student, Youth Empowerment Speaker, Motivational Speaker on DEI

Jennifer Serravallo

Author & Literacy Consultant

Bryan Collier

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Best Known for "Uptown"

Kate DiMeo and Laura Schiller

Literacy Consultants & Coaches; Units of Study Staff Developers

Mary Ehrenworth

Deputy Director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project

Ssanyu Lukoma

Entrepreneur, Author & Founder of Brown Kids Read

Jon Scieszka

Children's Writer; Best Known for Picture Books Created with the Illustrator Lane Smith