SIGNATURE KEYNOTE TOPIC

Beyond Different, Own Your Voice to Create Change

Difference often begins at a variety of places, looks, abilities and needs. You are an individual. What happens when what others see is the basis for what they decide about you? What happens when that is the basis for what happens to you? To someone else? Do you feel you need to do something about that? And where do you begin?

This keynote speech tells the story of a frightening night when a drive home became the site of a physical threat that became a night of proof and person not being heard. From arrest to national law, here are the decisions and steps taken toward protecting being different in the hopes this does not happen again to anyone who does not look or act as a person who has power but not knowledge can effect.

Key Takeaways: 

• Find what you are passionate to work on

• Learn Cheryl’s advocacy steps that you can model for your own path

• Networking can happen all around you

• Speak up to share your ideas, ask questions

• Find value in listening to others’ experiences and opinions