Michail Bletsas

Chief Connectivity Officer, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).

Jon Scieszka

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

R. Dwayne Betts

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

James Vollbracht

Author of "Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids"

Sayantani DasGupta

NYT Best-Selling Author; Physician & Narrative Medicine Scholar

Anita Archer

Educational Consultant, Author of "Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching"

Lilia Luciano

Award-Winning Investigative Journalist & Filmmaker

Donalyn Miller

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

Steve Chiger

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

Pandemic Classroom: Dispatches from Teachers

Lacey Robinson

President & CEO of UnboundEd; Equity Education Advocate & Author of "Justice Seekers"

Footlocker and Fridays

Hilderbrand Pelzer III

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

Edwin De La Rosa

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

Diane Luby Lane

Founder & Executive Director of Get Lit-Words Ignite; Literacy Advocate, Executive Producer & TEDx Speaker

SAMUEL CURTIS, DIANE LUBY LANE

Madi Franquiz

Founder & Director of Authoring Life, Mentor Ambassador for the World Literacy Foundation & Author

Ssanyu Lukoma

Entrepreneur, Author & Founder of Brown Kids Read

Jordan Morrow

"Godfather of Data Literacy" & 2X Data IQ100 Winner; Senior Vice President of Data & AI Transformation at AgileOne

Empowerment Through Data Literacy

Tod Olson

Author of "How to Get Rich" Series

Ross Burach

Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo

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

Nancy Frey

Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University