Carroll Speaker Series (for Parents)

Since 2004, Rosetta Lee has been a diversity speaker and trainer on a variety of topics, including cross cultural communication, identity development, prejudice reduction and coalition building, gender and sexuality diversity, facilitation skills, bullying in schools, and gender bias in the classroom. Rosetta has presented at numerous conferences and nonprofit organizations such as the White Privilege Conference, Junior League, and City Year. She has also worked with over 200 K-12 public and independent schools throughout the country, as well as a number of colleges and universities. She has served several years on the faculty of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Diversity Leadership Institute, as well as NAIS' diversity think-tank cadre, Call to Action.

Guinevere Eden is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for the Study of Learning (CSL) at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the brain bases of developmental dyslexia. Dr. Eden’s work is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She has served on the editorial boards of the Annals of Dyslexia, Dyslexia, Brain and Language, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Brain Mapping (Associate Editor).

Dr. Eden has served as president of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), and IDA induced her into their Hall of Honor and named her a Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecturer. Dr. Eden provided testimony on dyslexia at full committee hearings by (i) the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in 2014; and (ii) by the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in 2016.