New Speaker Mary L. Gray Explores How Everyday Technology & AI Transforms Us
Outspoken is pleased to announce our newest speaker, anthropologist, technologist and media scholar, Mary L. Gray, who is a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics. She has long researched how people’s everyday use of technologies (including artificial intelligence) transform labor, identity and human rights—for better and worse.
Speaker Books Releasing in 2021 For Your Author-focused Events!
Be sure to add the book titles to your list. You’ll learn something new about civics and tech, business strategy and financial empowerment, gender and inclusion, and anti-racism for our youth. Our authored speakers are available for speaking engagements centered around the themes and ideas within their original works.
New Speaker Dr. Joshua Bennett’s Black Poetics as Re-imagination and Political Justice
Award-winning poet, interrogative scholar, and new Outspoken speaker, Dr. Joshua Bennett, finds inspiration in greats like Toni Morrison. From a spoken-word youth to slam champion of HBO’s hit poetry slam series, Brave New Voices, to Professor at Dartmouth College, Joshua has committed himself to the business of black writing as a means of radical re-imagination and repair.
New Speaker Rachel Rodgers Mentors & Helps Female Entrepreneurs Reach Financial Gains
Perhaps no one understands how to come out of a global pandemic on top as a black woman entrepreneur better than new Outspoken speaker and founder and CEO of Hello Seven, Rachel Rodgers. Her women-run consultancy, Hello Seven, offers business advice to women entrepreneurs with the goal of helping them gain access to networks and educational resources needed to scale their business.
New Book Alert: Dr. Hallowell's "ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—from Childhood through Adulthood"
Dr. Ned Hallowell has collaborated with Dr. John Ratey to write his latest book, "ADHD 2.0". Many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to their ADHD. Their research in the book shares more on minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD.