Our Speakers

Natalie is an incoming senior at Mountain View High School in Mountain View, California. She is grateful to be a TEDx speaker, a state finalist in Speech and Debate, and a proud member of the National Youth Leadership Council's Youth Advisory Council.

Amy Meuers is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Leadership Council, the leading service-learning organization in the country for more than 40 years. Amy has spent 20 years with NYLC leading both national and international service-learning initiatives that expand the capacity of educators to utilize service-learning as an instructional strategy with students of all age-levels. Under her leadership, NYLC launched Youth as Solutions, a national service-learning program that supports teams of youth across the country in addressing issues impacting their communities. She co-founded the Coalition for Service-Learning to support advocacy efforts for service-learning at the federal level, and published Equity in Service-Learning: Self Assessment Tools for Quality Engagement, Engage: Service-Learning for Afterschool, and the revised Getting Starting in Service-Learning: Integrating the Process into K-12 Teaching. She is a graduate of the Hubert H. Humphrey Policy Fellows (21-22) and is a city commissioner in her hometown of Brooklyn Park, Mn. Amy holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Administration from Globe University, and a Masters of Science in Organizational Leadership from Regis University. She also completed Northwestern University Certificate of Executive Leadership and ASU Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership.

John Snoad is a Senior Manager at Sphere Education Initiatives. He is a career educator with nearly 40 years combined of highly effective teaching, coaching, and professional development leadership in secondary social studies.  His experiences include working with multiple learners in urban, suburban, and rural settings. John joined the Sphere team in 2022 and embraces Sphere’s mission of improving and promoting civic culture and civil discourse in America’s schools.