Sarah Morris
Head, Instruction and Engagement, Subject Librarian for English, Emory University

As the Head of Instruction and Engagement, Sarah Morris leads and plans library educational programs and engagement initiatives and works with librarians, faculty, and other Emory campus partners to support student learning and student success. Sarah also works with the English Department and offers support around information literacy instruction, outreach and events, research, and library collection development.

Prior to joining the Emory Libraries, Sarah worked as an assessment librarian at the University of Texas at Austin and as a first-year experience librarian at Loyola University Chicago. Sarah also has a background in museum education and educational consulting and is the co-founder of an educational nonprofit called Nucleus Learning Network.

Sarah’s current research interests revolve around media literacy education and misinformation. She has worked on a number of collaborative media literacy education projects with partners including the Mozilla Foundation, ACRL, and Global Voices NewsFrames. She is currently active with the Credibility Coalition and EveryLibrary. Aside from her interests in media literacy education, Sarah is also interested in high school to college student transitions, digital citizenship, and interdisciplinary approaches to information literacy education.

Lou Russell
Managing Director, Learning | Russell Martin & Associates – a Moser Consulting

Lou has 30 years of helping organizations achieve their full potential working to inspire improvement in their leadership, project management and individual growth. Today, Lou is a leading executive consultant, a sought-after speaker, and an author of six books on topics including Instructional Technology, Human Resources, and Project Management.

Lou’s passion is to create growth in companies by guiding the growth of their people. Lou believes that training is often just part of the solution to business problems. At Moser, Lou and her team incorporate a wide variety of services and products that can be tailored to help companies solve unique challenges, making their employees happier and more productive. Her upbeat style, and humorous stories about on-the ground experiences gives her clients both the inspiration and the tools they need to improve the bottom line for their business.

Cate Brubaker, PhD
Author | The Re-entry Roadmap & The Study Abroad Re-entry Toolkit

Dr. Cate Brubaker is author of The Re-entry Roadmap workbook, co-editor of the Arriving Well anthology, creator of the Study Abroad Re-entry Toolkit, and founder of SmallPlanetStudio.com. She helps people all over the world turn the dreaded return home into a positive and transformative “Forward Launch.”

Gaby Mammone
Entrepreneur, Activist, Coach and CEO, Kind Projects

Award-winning keynote speaker Gaby Mammone is a presentation and speaking voice expert. She is a highly regarded entrepreneur, activist, and coach. Gaby is the CEO of Kind Projects, an organization that supports charities and not-for-profit groups through events, grant writing, workshops and marketing initiatives. She is an inspirational example of someone who has overcome adversity as she lives with a disability while successfully managing her business and family. Gaby helps people take control of their lives by teaching them how to accept change and enjoy their journey. Gaby is on a mission to improve performance through resiliency and kindness. You can follow “Gaby with one b” on Facebook and Instagram at @gabymammone or at www.gabymammone.ca.

Tessa Adams, M.Ed.
Adams County Children and Youth Services’ mentoring program, Project Hope

Powerhouse advocacy, networking expertise, and a passion for exposing the light within others – that’s what Mentoring Specialist Tessa Adams is made of. Her path to helping others find their way started in undergrad when she became involved in Residence Life. Since then, she has traveled the world from New York to Italy, working with youth who are considered “at risk” or working with young minds who seek to feel as fulfilled as Tessa does in her career. In Italy, Tessa developed a mentoring program for American youth growing up in the military and assisted them in finding universities to attend in the states. Soon after, Tessa moved to South Carolina where she earned her Masters of Education and developed her position as a Program Coordinator at the University of South Carolina. At USC, under South Carolina’s Department of Social Services, Tessa recruited and trained youth growing up in foster care to become leaders among their peers and advocate for change in the foster care system at the state level. It became evident that having a mentor set youth in foster care up for success more so than the youth who were growing up without an invested positive role model. Currently, Tessa works as the Mentoring Specialist for a mentoring program at Adams County Children and Youth Services called Project Hope. Due to intentionally recruiting mentors and meeting youth where they are at, Project Hope tripled in just a year’s time. The program continues to thrive and so do the youth (and the volunteers) who are a part of it. Tessa has seen first hand the difference a mentor can make in a person’s life, and in their career, and looks forward to sharing how to find a mentor as well as discuss the importance of becoming one.