<p>Journalist and author Anya Kamenetz is a futurist with a passion for the complexities of how we learn, work, and live in a rapidly changing world. </p><p>Anya was a longtime, award-winning correspondent at NPR coordinating education coverage online and on-air. Previously she covered technology, innovation, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship as a staff writer for <em>Fast Company</em> magazine. Her reporting—on technology, the cost of higher education, career development, the future of work, post-pandemic life, and many other topics—has appeared in a wide range of publications, including <em>The Guardian</em>,<em> Medium, Muck Rack</em>, <em>New York Magazine</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>“O” the Oprah Magazine</em>, <em>Slate</em>, <em>The Village Voice</em>, <em>WIRED</em>, and <em>The Washington Post</em>.</p><p>Kamenetz’s most recent book is <em>The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now</em>. In it, she considers the pandemic’s impact on the lives of children and the burden on working parents trying to care for, help educate and keep children safe at home. With audiences, Kamenetz explores the long-term implications of the pandemic for schools, colleges, businesses, and employees. She also traces the many links between the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” and the growing realization that building diverse, equitable and inclusive working environments is critical to economic growth and a resilient American workforce.</p><p>Kamenetz’s four previous books include her debut, <em>Generation Debt</em>, which received critical acclaim for stoking debate on the unprecedented economic challenges young people face. In 2010, she published<em> DIY U</em>, which looks at the promise and potential of technology and open-source education models for more affordable, personalized, and experience-based learning paths in higher education. The book, which prompted the <em>Huffington Post</em> to name her an “Game Changer in Education,” explored the intersection of meritocracy, race, and class, asking “how can we build a system that works for everybody?” Critics called her third book, <em>The Test</em>, a “must read” for anyone interested in our education system. It explored the past, present and future of standardized assessments and challenged conventional ideas about intelligence, achievement, and success. Her book <em>The Art of Screen Time</em> will change the way you think about digital natives and parenting in the digital age.</p><p>Kamenetz is a three-time winner of national awards from the Education Writers Association, and her digital education coverage at NPR won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow award for Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News Association.</p>
Award-Winning Journalist; Acclaimed Author; Future of Work, Education and Technology Expert
<ul><li><strong>How Your Business Can Use Chat-GPT As a Competitive Edge</strong></li><li>As a learning technology expert, Anya Kamenetz has long been at the forefront of trends in AI and how it’s revolutionizing the way we live and work. Chat-GPT helped her generate this speech topic, highlighting the promises and pitfalls of this quantum leap of technology for business. For audiences anywhere on the curve—from early adopter to laggard—this exciting presentation includes real-life examples and live demonstrations of: <ul><li>How to use “prompt engineering” to elicit the most useful responses from Chat-GPT </li><li>How Chat-GPT can streamline coding, data analysis, and strategic decision-making </li><li>How to analyze the data generated by Chat-GPT to gain valuable insights into your customers' preferences and behaviors </li><li>How to create personalized, conversational experiences to engage with your customers in new and exciting ways </li><li>How to build brand loyalty and increase customer retention by leveraging Chat-GPT </li><li>The strengths and weaknesses of Chat-GPT in lead generation, content creation, and more </li><li>Privacy, ethics, and other pitfalls to avoid</li></ul></li><li><strong>The Future of Education and Learning: What it Means for Your Business</strong></li><li>Workforce skill gaps are real. College-going is trending down in the US and demographic headwinds are gathering all over the world. In this environment, great companies don’t just find talent: they grow it, by embracing the future of learning and workforce development. This talk peers around the corner from Zoom rooms to AI and VR. Anya sketches out the landscape of learning innovation, including:<ul><li>Innovations in pedagogy and technology for creating personalized, flexible learning experiences</li><li>The importance of education that engages the whole person, increases resilience and emotional intelligence</li><li>How education and training can become your company’s competitive edge </li><li>This speech will be invaluable for audiences interested in the future of education, and how it will affect their business.</li></ul></li><li><strong>The Stolen Year(s): From Crisis to Resilience and Growth</strong></li><li>The pandemic kicked off one of the biggest social experiments in history—one in which school, work, and life converged, forcing many of us to accommodate distance learning, remote work, and every-day life under one roof. The long-term implications for students, parents, employers and employees are profound. With a futurist’s eye for what comes next, Anya Kamenetz considers the impact on the K-12 education system, on colleges, business, and work. In presentations that have been called both reassuring and inspiring, Kamenetz encourages people to think about their own experiences in a broader historical context, and she tailors her presentation to the needs of each audience. <ul><li>With business and future of work audiences, Kamenetz considers the role of technology and lessons learned. She also traces the many links between the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” and the growing realization that building diverse, equitable and inclusive working environments is critical to recruitment and retention, economic growth and a more resilient workforce. For audiences interested in workforce development, she looks at the pandemic-inspired wave of innovation behind the latest trends in delivering onboarding, training, staff engagement and skill-building content to employees and teams wherever they happen to be.</li><li>With K12 audiences, Kamenetz explores the enormous long-term costs of the pandemic on society given its disproportionate impact on women and children—particularly women and children of color. With higher-ed-focused audiences, Kamenetz looks at how attitudes about remote learning have changed post-pandemic and considers the impact of innovation and technology on our growing ability to support more affordable, self-directed and interactive learning paths in the future. For audiences of college students, Kamenetz explores the personal lessons of resilience that students have been forced to build on, and she inspires them to take an active role in shaping a better future. </li></ul></li></ul>