Craig Kielburger
Me to We: How One Person Can Make a World of Difference

Craig Kielburger co-founded Free The Children, a unique international development and youth empowerment organization. Since 1995, Free The Children has become the world's leading youth-driven charity, inspiring an entire generation to stand up and have their voices heard.

With the development of 3,500 Youth in Action chapters in schools, Free the Children has built more than 650 schools throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, providing daily education to more than 55,000 children in 16 countries. One of Free The Children's most notable projects has been a joint endeavour with Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network called O Ambassadors.

Craig is also the co-founder and Director of Me to We, a social enterprise that make ethical living the normwhile helping Free The Children achieve financial sustainability

He is the co-author of three national best sellers. His latest book,TheWorldNeedsYour Kid: Raising ChildrenWho Care and Contribute, will be released across North America and features a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Together with his brother Marc, Craig is a syndicated columnist carried by theToronto Star,Vancouver Sun andCanada'smostwidely readmagazine,Canadian Living.

Alan November
The Emerging Culture of Teaching and Learning

Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology.

Audiences enjoy Alan's humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. Alan November has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America.

Alan was named one of the nation's fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Classroom Computer Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational LeadershipThroughTechnology and ismost proud of being selected as one of the original five national ChristaMcAuliffe Educators.

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Senator Lillian Quan Dyck
The Importance 0of Post-Secondary Education for Aboriginal Youth

Member of the Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, and a first generation Chinese Canadian,The Honourable Dr. Lillian EvaQuan Dyck is well-known for advocating for equity in the education and employment of women, Chinese Canadians and Aboriginals.

She has been recognized in a number ofways, such as: A National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Science &Technology in 1999; A YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Science, Technology & the Environment in 2003; and two eagle feathers in 2005.

Senator Dyck was a full professor in the Neuropsychiatry Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Saskatchewan.

She is Vice-Chair of the Aboriginal Peoples Committee and a member of the Social Affairs, Science &Technology Committee of the Senate. Her priority areas are Aboriginals, Chinese Canadians, Women in Science, Engineering & Technology and Post-Secondary education.