Speaking + Press

How can high school students develop critical thinking skills, courage to use their voice, and become more effective communicators? Creative writing. It’s powerful… but it’s not what we’re taught in the classroom.

In this talk, Anna explains how language arts teachers can prepare their students for The Real World. 

Soaring Together 2022 is a free online event for teen business owners. Every day for 4 days, 4 pre-recorded workshops from teen and adult business owners went live, so that our 200+ attendees could watch from home. We covered topics like selling at pop-up shops, planning for product launches, capturing product photography that sells, building relationships on Instagram, and more. 

It's a problem that most makers have: while they're fabulously creative people, their marketing is not. And with the help of a few creative writing techniques, anyone can take their website / emails / blogs / product descriptions from bleh to "I've read EVERY post on your website out loud to my best friends (safe to say we're obsessed). When's the next one coming out??"

When she was a 5th-grader, Anna started a handmade greeting card shop on Etsy. This video gives an overview of how that business has grown and how she's continuing to learn from her mentor, Mark.