Speaker List and Topics:

• Chrissy Chard: Chrissy wants to create households where kids don’t “get in trouble” as the foundation for healthy adult-child relationships. Dr. Chrissy Chard is the founder of Courageous Parents, a Colorado-based parent coaching practice and the director of the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership’s Advanced Leadership Training Program.
• Gabrielle Judge: Gabrielle is illustrating “lazy girl jobs”' as the solution to the disengaged employee problem; she argues for a new futuristic work style that went viral worldwide when creating the term “lazy girl jobs”. Gabrielle is a content creator and CEO/Founder of Anti Work Girlboss, a social movement that represents the next generation of workplace. Her ideas have been featured on over 10,000 worldwide media mentions including WSJ, Bloomberg, NY Times, and 60 Minutes Australia.
• Iris Radin: Iris wants to share the Dos and Don’ts on how to have a good conversation in high school. She hopes to share how students her age can have more positive and deep conversations to build better relationships. Iris Radin is a senior at Poudre High School in the International Baccalaureate Program.
• Kyrstin Askew: As an anorexia patient five years in recovery, she wants to educate the world on eating disorders to remove the stigma and taboo surrounding the topic. She hopes to promote growth through sharing her experience and knowledge. Kyrstin Askew is a Senior at Rocky Mountain High School and the president of EDA (Eating Disorder Alliance).
• Sonja Gedde: At the start of her teaching career, she was taken aback to see that her hosting teacher was rejecting her because of a nose piercing when she was a 4.0 college student, church youth leader, and Miss North Dakota. This launched her into studying presentation of the self and its impact on identity. She wants to share her story on living authentically, embracing our identities, and to “judge not lest ye be judged”. Dr. Sonja Gedde is a bold and progressive high school administrator in Poudre School District and affiliate professor at Colorado State University who teaches in the University Honors Program as well as the Communication Studies Department. 
• Susan Blanco: In her field, compassion is not often mixed with criminal law, but sometimes compassion is needed for humans to lead a better life. Susan is the founder of the 1st Competency Court of Colorado located in Fort Collins; with her work people can engage in services to exit the criminal justice system with more stability than when they entered. Susan Blanco is the first female to serve as Chief Judge of the 8th Judicial District of Colorado (Larimer and Jackson Counties) and was appointed to the bench in January,  2017. 
• Thomas Lockridge: Through his work, he realized that in the courtroom whoever tells the best story wins and took a deep dive into studying Hollywood screenwriting and the simplified structure for use in the courtroom and in everyday life. Tom Lockridge served as the elected Commonwealth Attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit in Kentucky for more than 26 years and has well over 30 years-experience as a violent crime prosecutor.