The Educating Children of Color Summit provides a unique opportunity for educators, juvenile justice, and child welfare professionals to enhance their ability to retain and inspire the students they serve. It is also an opportunity for high school students to learn about themselves while they explore higher education. Finally, the Summit is an opportunity for parents to learn to communicate with schools and with their children to maximize their child’s success. Through professional registrations at the Summit we award money to students to help defray the cost of higher education. Over the last 13 years, ECOC has awarded more than $199,000 in scholarships and educational gifts as well as 199 laptops to students attending the Educating Children of Color Summit.
Ms. Cunningham is a 20-year school veteran with experience working with students in low socioeconomic schools. Her experience in Mindfulness, SEL, and Behavior Interventions allows all students to achieve academic success.
Dr. Zimmermann is an expert on social and emotional learning and mental health as it pertains to implementation and integration within school systems.
Eric M. Bailey is a bestselling author of the Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior at Work and the President of Bailey Strategic Innovation Group.
SHANTERRA MCBRIDE is an author, preacher, speaker, and teacher. She is founder of MARVELOUS UNIVERSITY, a social enterprise that offers life coaching and success planning for young people, specializing in leadership development for girls and young women.
David Galvan is the creator of "Who Can Relate", a suicide prevention program, and chairs the faith-based section of the El Paso County Youth Suicide Prevention Taskforce.
Lori Bitar is an award-winning educational consultant and specialist in supporting students, families, and schools in academics and behavior. Her company, Academic Advocates provides solutions for the nationwide educational crisis.
Erika Smoots is an educator, community organizer and activist. She's the creator of a K-6 social justice curriculum for her school district.
Rhonda V. Magee is the author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness and a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco.
Willy Wilkinson is an award-winning transgender activist and writer. He is the author of Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency, a 2016 Lambda Literary Award winner.
Dr. Regina Lewis is the Special Assistant to the President for Academic Excellence and Inclusion, Communication Department Chair at Pikes Peak Community College, and creator of the award-winning Cultural Excellence through Institutional Diligence.
Dr. Carolyn Strong is a motivational educator with an anti-bullying message of hope for children, families and schools.
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky is the founder and director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute and author of Trauma Stewardship and The Age of Overwhelm.
Wise has been an anti-racism activist for 30 years. He has authored nine books including his highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. His newest book, Dispatches from the Race War, will be out in December 2020.
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