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Julie Lythcott-Haims

2021 Speaker
Julie Lythcott-Haims

JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto, How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 5 million views, and in 2020, she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir, Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021. She serves on the board of Common Sense Media, and on the advisory board of LeanIn.Org, and she is a former board member at Foundation for a College Education, Global Citizen Year, The Writers Grotto, and Challenge Success. She volunteers with the hospital program No One Dies Alone. Lythcott-Haims is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean, and holds a BA from Stanford, a JD from Harvard, and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. @jlythcotthaims

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