Tomorrow's success rests in the hands of today's children, making their education and healthy environment crucial to our future. American Program Bureau offers a list of highly regarded professional speakers who are also authors, CEOs, teachers, scholars, and leaders that present on crucial areas such as Children & Family, Parenting, and Generations. In their presentations, they address many different topics, including the importance of education and violence prevention, in protecting our children's welfare and they inspire audiences to overcome obstacles and aspire to educate and support our children.
Trending Topic for Families & Educators: Headlines have proven that bullying among children and teens is an epidemic that isn't going away. Working to solve the problem are
bullying experts (like
Rosalind Wiseman,
Rachel Simmons, and
Scott Poland). These
speakers on bullying and aggression share solutions for adolescents, parents, and teachers who are trying to cope with this unfortunate and widespread problem.
Geoffrey Canada
Profiled on 60 Minutes, Canada has achieved great success as President and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, an agency that fuses community building with academic achievement to improve the futures of inner city youth. Recently, President Obama launched an initiative to create “Promise Neighborhoods” around ...
Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. In addition, she is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Wes Moore
Wes Moore is a youth advocate, keynote speaker, Army combat veteran, promising business leader and the best-selling author of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates - contrasting his childhood choices against another Wes Moore's who was eventually imprisoned.
Stacey Bess
Stacey Bess - the author of the memoir Nobody Don't Love Nobody, about her first teaching job at a school for homeless children - shares a powerful message of mentorship & service.
Rachel Simmons
Simmons is the author of The New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out, the first book to explore the phenomenon of bullying between girls - just as harmful as boys, but harder to recognize. The Founder and Director of The Girls’ Leadership Institute, she is a highly sought-after consultant to schools all over ...
Victor Rivas Rivers
Born in Cuba, Rivers came to the US at the age of two, endured horrific child abuse and witnessed domestic violence at the hands of his father, which he chronicles in his New York Times bestseller, A Private Family Matter. An actor, athlete, and advocate, Rivers is the national spokesperson for the National ...
Gail Sheehy
As the best-selling author of over a dozen books, including Passages, Gail Sheehy has rocked the culture and changed the way millions of women and men look at the stages of their lives. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the ten most influential books of our time. In her latest book, ...
Robyn Silverman
Dr. Robyn Silverman, a child/teen development specialist, body image/body bullying expert, sought-after speaker, and award-winning writer, is known for her no-nonsense yet positive approach to helping young people and their families thrive. Her groundbreaking research is the foundation for her new book, Good Girls Don't ...
Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell leveraged the power of education to transform Long Beach's "unteachables," by teaching tolerance through literature and writing. Her tenacity and commitment to her students is chronicled in The Freedom Writers Diary - How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around ...
Alvin Poussaint
A veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Poussaint is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who is renowned as an expert and educated crusader for the African American family within our multicultural society. He has worked closely with Bill Cosby, serving as an advisor on The Cosby Show, and has ...
Judge Glenda Hatchett
Judge Hatchett is the former Chief Presiding Judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court in Atlanta. Her highly successful court television series, Judge Hatchett, provides a forum where she can reach beyond her courtroom to a larger and more diverse audience. She is the author of Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say! ...
Jonathan Kozol
A former inner city teacher, Kozol has been an activist and advocate for social justice and equity in public education for over 40 years. His newest book, Letters to a Young Teacher, reignites a number of controversial issues: the mania of high-stakes testing, the invasion of our public schools by private ...
Victoria Rowell
Emmy-nominated Rowell has been honored with 12 NAACP Image Awards and is a staunch advocate for foster children. Her memoir, The Women Who Raised Me, reveals the transformational power of mentoring, love, art, and womanhood that inspires and empowers women and families. Her novel, Secrets of a Soap Opera ...
Rosalind Wiseman
Rosalind Wiseman is an internationally recognized expert on children, teens, parenting, bullying, social justice, and ethical leadership. She is the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, the groundbreaking best-selling book that was the basis for the movie Mean Girls, and its follow-up, Queen Bee Moms and ...
Marc Lamont Hill
An activist, social critic, and one of the nation's most notable African American leaders, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is among a new generation of public intellectuals who move with equal ease between Faculty Row and Fraternity Row, "the street" and Main Street.
John Medina
Dr. John J. Medina is a developmental molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in human brain development and the genetics of psychiatric disorders. Medina was the founding director of the Talaris Research Institute, a Seattle-based research center originally focused on how infants encode and process information ...
Sabrina Weill
Weill is an author and the former editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine. Weill's third book, The Real Truth about Teens and Sex, tells parents what's really going on in their teenagers' minds, hearts, and bedrooms--and gives down-to-earth advice to help parents talk about sex the "right" way, so their teens ...
Ross Greene
Ross W. Greene, PhD, is originator of the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach, author of the highly acclaimed books The Explosive Child and Lost at School, Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and founder of the nonprofit organization Lives in the ...
Kay Toliver
Subject of the Peabody Award-winning PBS special "Good Morning, Miss Toliver". Espouses her straight-forward philosophy on education: all students can learn and it is a teacher's job to lead them.
Jamie Lee Curtis
An award winning actress and best-selling author of seven children's books, Curtis is a woman with many talents. She has demonstrated her versatility as a film actress with starring roles in such acclaimed films as the blockbuster True Lies opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award.
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