May Webinar | Leaders are Readers: Fostering family success through literacy
May 30 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Family literacy seeks to impact the long-term trajectory of a family’s education, financial, health, and social-emotional well-being by providing the time and integrated support families need to realize their goals. Dr. Artika Tyner, the 2023 Toyota Family Teacher of the Year runner-up, is on a mission to create dedicated community spaces for fostering reading, cultural awareness, and leadership development. By initiating arts and humanities-based programs aimed at inspiring and equipping leaders around the world, her work is planting the seeds of social change.
Join NCFL for a conversation with Dr. Tyner and learn how her organization, Planting People Growing Justice, is leveraging her Toyota Family Teacher of the Year award funds to spread and scale its efforts and build a pipeline to success for all children.
Speaker:
Dr. Artika Tyner
Planting People Growing Justice
2023 Toyota Family Teacher of the Year runner-up
Dr. Artika Tyner is committed to creating a world of inclusive leaders who will meet the pressing needs of today and work towards a better future where racial justice and economic justice reign supreme. As a motivational speaker, author and educator, Dr. Tyner helps people of all ages connect with their gifts and develop tangible tools for bringing forth sustainable, durable change in the family, workplace, community or school. By building and leveraging the tools in The Inclusive Leader she has inspired thousands of people to lead with their own gifts and plant a seed of social change.
Dr. Tyner’s work is grounded in extensive experience as a law and leadership professor, lawyer, social change agent, researcher and nonprofit founder and leader. She is well-known as a thought leader, author and designer of high-profile programs to drive organizational DEI initiatives and create inclusive leaders. Her impact spans Fortune 500 companies, start up tech companies, healthcare providers, government services and agencies, higher education institutions and grassroots organizations. Dr. Tyner is deftly able to ask the big questions, strategically innovate real solutions and then lead the way. She intentionally invests her time and energy in inspiring change and welcomes opportunities to present, collaborate and innovate with key stakeholders seeking to impact social change and do what no one has done before.