Dr. Nadia Lopez is an award-winning educator who became a viral sensation after one of her scholars named her "the most influential person in his life" in the popular blog Humans of New York. She founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a STEAM-focused middle school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 2010 and served as the principal for ten years. Building on her firm belief in education's role for the next generation, Dr. Lopez is a fervent supporter and advocate for teachers, especially as they experience unprecedented challenges due to Covid-19, including extreme burnout. With solid conviction in education being the great equalizer, Dr. Lopez...
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Dr. Nadia Lopez is an award-winning educator who became a viral sensation after one of her scholars named her “the most influential person in his life” in the popular blog Humans of New York. She founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a STEAM-focused middle school in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 2010 and served as the principal for ten years. Building on her firm belief in education’s role for the next generation, Dr. Lopez is a fervent supporter and advocate for teachers, especially as they experience unprecedented challenges due to Covid-19, including extreme burnout. With solid conviction in education being the great equalizer, Dr. Lopez often says she opened a school to close a prison.
On stage, Dr. Nadia Lopez speaks from the heart and hard-earned experience on current student and educator issues. After stepping down from Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2020, Dr. Lopez continued making her mark and making a difference in education through consulting. Through her company, The Lopez Effect, she provides workforce training and coaches leaders to build their capacity, improve culture through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and develop systems to create healthy spaces for professional sustainability. Having gone through a personal journey to support her mental health as an educator in the pandemic, Dr. Lopez discusses how to support resilience when burnout has gripped teachers across the nation. Additionally, she consults with organizations on their goals and the implementation of social responsibility initiatives that impact communities that have been marginalized.
Named one of LinkedIn’s 2019 “Top 10 Voices in Education” and the recipient of the 2015 Black Girls Rock award, Dr. Lopez has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Glamour magazine, PopSugar, MSNBC, CBS, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. She was also invited to the White House to meet with President Obama and was selected as one of the Varkey Foundation’s “Top 50 Global Teacher Prize” finalists in 2016.
In addition to her career in education, Dr. Lopez is the author of The Bridge to Brilliance, the story of her uphill battle in founding and opening Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a middle-grade public school in one of America’s poorest communities. In the book, which Essence magazine describes as “essential reading,” Lopez shares her determination in breaking the downward spiral that traps too many inner-city children, the hard lessons won, and how a Humans of New York article was the pebble that started a lucky landslide for her and her team to change lives. Her TEDTalk on the education revolution has garnered more than a million views. She also serves as a guest lecturer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, providing lessons on transformative justice, education, and the school-to-prison pipeline.
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THE BRIDGE TO BRILLIANCE
TEACHER BURNOUT: SUPPORTING THE EDUCATORS OF TODAY & TOMORROW
TEACHING IN THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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