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Andrea Strutin

With over 14 years of teaching experience globally including the United States, South Korea, Norway, and Israel, Andrea’s teaching journey has led her on a path to continuously reimagine the way we learn. As a Reggio-inspired leader and Apple Distinguished Educator, her love for deep pedagogical conversations has driven her to transform learning environments, promote collaboration, integrate technology, and personalize learning. At Walworth Barbor American International School in Israel, Andrea is currently leading her team to set up learning spaces that inspire innovation and inquiry as an Early Years Director.

Christine Lion-Bailey

Christine Lion-Bailey is the Chief Strategy Officer/Founder of Ready Learner One, LLC, a company that specializes in innovative solutions for learning and training both in education and the corporate space. Christine also serves as the Director of Technology & Innovation and an Elementary Principal in Morris Plains, NJ and as a professor of instructional technology at Ramapo College of NJ. Christine sits on the Advisory Board for the Transformative Leadership Program at Pace University- Lubin School of Business. She is the co-author of Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented & Virtual Reality (Jan 2020) and The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming (Nov 2020). Christine is a national/international presenter on innovative solutions for learning and training.

Donnie Piercey

Donnie Piercey is the 2021 Kentucky Teacher of the Year and teaches fifth grade in Lexington, Kentucky. After graduating from Asbury College and earning his master’s from Auburn Montgomery, he has been teaching in Kentucky since 2007. Donnie specializes in using technology to promote student inquiry, learning, and engagement.
Over the past fifteen years of teaching, these interests have given him the unique chance to represent Kentucky and his students around the world. Donnie was the recipient of a National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship to Antarctica, and he also represents Kentucky on the inaugural National Geographic Teacher Advisory Council. He is the North American lead for the Google Earth Education Experts Network, and he was the first teacher in Kentucky to become both a Google Certified Innovator and a Google Certified Trainer.
Donnie has been invited to keynote and present at schools in thirty-three states and on four continents. In 2017, he co-authored The Google Cardboard Book: Explore, Engage, and Educate with Virtual Reality based on virtual experiences he created for his students. The Bluegrass always calls him home, however, and he regularly leads professional development at school districts around the state.

Jesse Lubinsky

Jesse is currently the Chief Learning Officer for Ready Learner One LLC. He is an education technologist, teacher, certified school administrator, and doctoral student based out of Westchester County in New York. Prior to entering the learning space, he was a technology consultant for Fortune 500 companies specializing in network engineering and software development projects. Jesse is co-author of Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality and The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming. In 2021, Jesse was named to EdTech Magazine's Dean's List of Higher Education IT Influencers. He has received a Technology Leader Pioneer Award from the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center and is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and Trainer, a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader, an Adjunct Professor of Teacher Education at Ramapo College, an Adjunct Professor of Education Technology at Pace University, a member of the Google Earth Education Experts team, and a frequent keynote speaker and presenter who has recently done educational technology presentations across North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Australia. He also has a Bacon Number of 3. Jesse is co-host of the Partial Credit Podcast and the Ready Learner One Lounge, a virtual reality show focused on innovations in teaching and learning.

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro

Leticia Britos Cavagnaro is a scientist turned designer. Venturing outside of the biology lab, she found that designing learning experiences was even more rewarding than designing new forms of life. She is the co-founder and co-Director of University Innovation Fellows, a program of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), which empowers students at over 350 universities to be co-designers of their education. She teaches Stanford students of all disciplines, as well as corporate and nonprofit leaders, how to build their creative confidence to become engines of innovation in teams and organizations. Leticia has a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Stanford's School of Medicine, and is a former member of the Research in Education & Design Lab (REDlab) at Stanford’s School of Education. She has consulted with companies like Google, Citrix, and Microsoft. If she were granted a wish, she would bring her home country of Uruguay a tad closer to San Francisco, California, where she lives with her husband. A teleporter to go back and forth in an instant would do too.

Micah Shippee

Micah Shippee, PhD is a social studies teacher and educational technology trainer with two decades of experience. Micah is listed by EdTech Digest as one of 100 top influencers in EdTech for 2019-2020. He works to bridge the gap between research and practice in the educational sector. Micah explores ways to improve motivation in the classroom and seeks to leverage emergent technology to achieve educational goals. As an innovative "ideas" person, Micah likes to think, and act, outside the box. As an Author, Educational Consultant, and Keynote Speaker, he focuses on the adoption of emergent technology through the development of an innovative learning culture. Micah believes that innovativeness is the pedagogy of the future.

Meenu Singh

Meenu creates experiences and products that help people learn in delightful ways. Meenu teaches at the Stanford d.school’s Teaching and Learning Studio, where she's worked with 400+ university educators and administrators from around the globe. She is part of the core team that designed and is currently implementing the Innovative Teaching Scholars program for professors across 9 leading universities in Thailand. Meenu’s recent work also focuses on bringing design thinking into medical education, including working with educators at Stanford’s School of Medicine and designing a mobile application to improve formative assessment in medical education. In addition to her work in education, Meenu runs a firm where she designs with and coaches government agencies, private companies, and nonprofit organizations seeking to reinvigorate their modes of thinking and doing. Meenu is inspired by the creative potential that exists in you, you, and yes, even you!

Natalia LeMoyne Hernandez

Natalia LeMoyne Hernandez is the Coordinator for Instructional Technology at a school district in upstate NY. She's a Google EDU trainer, Innovator and Google Earth Education Expert. EdTech enthusiast and bilingual in Spanish and English. Natalia started her teaching journey in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a ELL educator and ultimately found her passion for Edtech while working for the North Carolina Public School system. She holds a Master's Degree in Instructional Technology. She has been selected by Google Earth Education team and National Geographic Society to create curriculum content for the launch of the new Google Earth and she is a member of the Google Earth Education Experts for the Eastern United States and Latin American Cohorts. At the state level, Natalia is a member of the Digital Learning Advisory Council and the Teaching in Remote and Hybrid Learning Environments Advisory Board for the New York State Education Department.

Pernille Ripp

Since Pernille Ripp was a child growing up in Denmark, she knew she wanted to work with kids. She began her journey in education as a math resource teacher, then transitioned into the classroom as a 4th and 5th-grade teacher, and has now found her home as a 7th-grade English teacher in Oregon, Wisconsin, USA. Pernille is also a speaker, author, writer at pernillesripp.com, mom, and passionate advocate for education. She's an award-winning speaker in literacy and technology integration, and dedicates her life efforts to uplifting engaged and empowered students. She is also the founder of The Global Read Aloud that has connected millions of students in more than 85 countries. Pernille's books and blogs are sources of tremendous inspiration and insight for teachers, parents, and educators around the world. She believes in having the courage to change and even break the rules for the good of kids and education. Besides being with her own family, there is no place she would rather be every day than in the classroom, teaching her awesome students." with "At the state level, Natalia is a member of the Digital Learning Advisory Council and the Teaching in Remote and Hybrid Learning Environments Advisory Board for the New York State Education Department.