Parenting for the Future

"A third of the young people who come to us feel like it's unclear to them how to affect change. And so our goal has to be start small, start with the things that are accessible that you can actually do today, whether that's educating yourself or taking a first volunteer action. And then that portal can be a way to level up engagement so that you get to do more and more over time."

• CEO of Do.Something.org, one of the world's largest organizations exclusively for young people who are committed to positive social change
• Education/Degree:
• BS in Legal Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
• J. D., Fordham Law School.

• DoSomething.org

"When we talk about caring for other people, we are also talking about caring for the common good, and we're talking about caring across difference. Relatively speaking, it's not hard for people to care for someone else. Almost everybody cares for somebody else. the higher bar for a lot of people is caring for people who are different from them in race or class, or culture, or political orientation, or religious orientation"

• Senior lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School of government.
• Faculty director of Harvard's Making Caring Common Project
• Education/Degree:
• Ed.D., Harvard University

Jonathan Rubenstein is father to one daughter and the founder and CEO of Joe Coffee, New York City's original specialty coffee company and a pioneer of the Third Wave Coffee Movement.

The award-winning collection of cafes is best known for brewing the highest quality coffee and serving its community of customers with warm, authentic hospitality.

Jonathan is here to talk about how cup of coffee and a lot of care can make the world a better place

Laurie Palau is a mom two almost grown-up daughters, host of the super popular weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life, and founder of Simply B Organized, a lifestyle company helping people declutter their lives so they could live simply and more meaningfully.

Laurie's advice has been featured in national publications including Real Simple and The New York Times and she speaks frequently on clutter, parenting, and entrepreneurship.

She is the author of the best-selling book Hot Mess: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized. This book is the topic of our conversation today.

New York Times bestselling author, Susan Verde is mom to three teenagers, two cats a dog and a tarantula. She is also a yogi and a mindful human who teaches yoga and mindfulness to kids of all ages.

Susan has written more than twenty picture books for children, in which she captures and celebrates the unique experience of being a child. Her books are used around the world to support mindfulness, yoga and social-emotional learning programs in schools and libraries.

Today, Susan is here to talk about her latest book and her first book for adults: Say one Kind Thing: Lessons in Acceptance, Love, and Letting Go.

The Metropolitan Opera (the Met) is the largest performing arts institution in the United States. Each season, the Met stages more than 200 opera performances in New York with over 800,000 people in attendance. Millions more experience the Met through its 90-year-old radio broadcast series, its new media partnerships and state-of-the-art technology, including Metropolitan Opera Radio on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Met Opera on Demand and free live audio streaming of performances on its website during the opera season.

Yet for all of its acclaim and reputation for being innovative and forward thinking, true inclusion has not been part of the Met's story.

Enter Marcia Sells, the first Chief Diversity Officer for the Metropolitan Opera and a phenomenal mom to her daughter and step-son.

Marcia joined the Met Opera after serving as Associate Dean and Dean of Students at Harvard Law School. Her storied career includes positions in academia, the private sector and public service. She is here to talk today about her work to make opera inclusive and ready to thrive in an increasingly diverse world

Dr. Mona Delahooke is mother to three adult children, and grandmother to one grand-daughter. She is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than thirty years of experience and serves as senior faculty member of the Profectum Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting families of neurodiverse children, adolescents and adults.

Her latest book, Brain-Body Parenting builds on the lessons of Beyond Behaviors and offers a radical new approach to parenting based on her clinical experiences as well as the most recent research in neuroscience and child psychology. This book is the topic of our conversation today.

Rebecca Chandler Leege is a mother and the Chief Impact Officer at Worldreader, a US based global technology non-profit that expands vulnerable children's access to books. Worldreader was born out of the belief that inexpensive technology and local content could help millions of children learn to read and ultimately create a better future for themselves. Since 2010, the company and its partners have distributed over 58 million digital books in 52 languages, to children and young adults in 100 countries.

Rebecca has more than 20 years of leadership experience and a proven track record of growing innovative organizations through creative collaborations, cross-sector partnerships, and strategic vision. She is here today to discuss the work of Worldreader and the positive impact it is having on the lives of millions of children.

Lisa L. Lewis is mother to two children and a freelance journalist who covers the intersection of parenting, public health, and education. She has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and Your Teen, among others.

Her new book, The Sleep-Deprived Teen: Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired, and How Parents and Schools Can Help Them Thrive is an outgrowth of her previous work on teens and sleep, including her role in helping get California's landmark legislation on healthy school start times passed.

This book is the topic of our conversation today.

LaMonica Williams is mother to two children and the Director of Program, Pre K - 2 Division at Teaching Matters, a national professional learning organization dedicated to helping teachers and school leaders develop the skills they need to close the gaps created by a radically unequal education system.

La Monica's expertise is in elementary literacy and she also manages the work of Teaching Matters to support educators and train them to use data to advance students' reading and writing abilities.

She joins us to discuss how Teaching Matters is creating a more equitable education landscape.