Keynote Speakers

Mimi Guarneri, M.D., medical director at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, La Jolla, is among five national leaders in the field of integrative medicine who have been selected by the Bravewell Collaborative as finalists for the 2005 Bravewell Leadership Award.

Lisa See was born in Paris but grew up in Los Angeles, spending much of her time in Chinatown. Her first book, On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of 1995.

 

Katherine Mosby, a writer, teaches writing courses at Columbia and N Y U., and conducts poetry workshops in New York public schools. She lives in New York City. Private Altars is a compelling story about the nature of consequence -- the way in which meaningless acts lead to irreversible situations, and the difficult compromise between the demands of society and the desires of the individual.

 

Mike Schmoker has worked on school and district improvement, assessment, curriculum and staff development as a central office administrator in two school districts in Arizona, as a senior consultant at McREL (Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory) in Denver, Colorado, and now as an independent speaker and consultant. He is a former middle and high school English teacher.