Role
2020 Keynote Speaker
New York based Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is an award-winning educator, activist, and scholar. He speaks on language, culture and representation. He facilitates workshops on diversity, equity and inclusion for a variety of audiences, from preschools to university campuses, and from local community centers to corporate boardrooms.
Simran is also the host of the new show, ‘Becoming Less Racist: Lighting a Path to Anti-Racism’, as well as the podcast ‘Spirited’, which explores how leaders from marginalized groups think about and navigate justice work. While he is an accomplished professor with graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia universities, Simran uses personal stories, dad-jokes, and a love for pop culture to connect with people where they are. That’s because he understands that marginalized groups will not lecture their way into dignity and that empathy is really built when we connect with one another as human beings.
Simran is the author of ‘Fauja Singh Keeps Going’, a new picture book biography about the oldest person to ever run a marathon. Simran is also writing an adult non-fiction book for Penguin Random House on cultivating empathy and connection in our tumultuous world.
I began to feel a real urgency to begin writing stories featuring minority communities who are not historically or even presently represented in kids’ books.
