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speaking nationally and internationally about creativity, education, race, culture, and design.
sam's presentations are highly interactive and multimedia, blending original ideas, student work, statistics, and pop culture to challenge dominant thinking, offer tangible tools, and inspire audiences to action.
conferences.
Adobe Education Summit • American Sociological Association • ArtCore • Axis Education Summit • Black Alliance for Educational Options Annual Symposium • Business Innovation Factory Storytelling Summit • Coalition for Essential Schools Fall Forum • Communities that Care, Working Together • Deeper Learning • Deeper Learning Global • DLR-U • Empowering Youth Through Hip-Hop • Free Minds Free People • Fund for Teachers Summer Institute • Global Teachers Institute • Habla International Education Forum • Hip-Hop Education Think Tank • Hip-Hop in the Heartland • Summer Teacher Institute • Imagining America • Kauffman Foundation Rethink ED Conference • Kennedy Center Arts Summit • Learning Environments for Tomorrow • New England Association of Schools and Colleges Forum • NewSchools Venture Fund Summit • NYU Metropolitan Center for Urban Education Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality Summer Institute • One Mic: Hip-Hop Culture Worldwide • Partnership for 21st Century Learning Annual Conference • PBL Academies • PBL New York • PBL World • PBL World Australia • Preemptive Education • Rock the School Bells • Seed and Spark Summit • Show and Prove Hip Hop Studies Conference • SXSW EDU
colleges + universities.
Brown University • Columbia University • George Brown College • Harvard University • High Tech High Graduate School of Education • Johnson & Wales University • Marquette University • Maryland Institute College of Art • MidAmerica Nazarene University • New York University • Rhode Island School of Design • Stanford University • University of California Berkeley • University of Hawaii • University of Toronto • Vanderbilt University
school districts + networks.
Big Picture Learning Big Bang • Cherry Creek School District • Evergreen School District • New Tech Annual Conference • North Carolina New Schools • San Leandro School District • San Ramon Valley Unified School District • Solano County Office of Education
Photo by Patrick Beaudouin