Devorah Heitner
Raising Digital Natives Founder
USA
Devorah Heitner, PhD, Founder and CEO of
Raising Digital Natives, is an experienced keynote speaker, workshop leader and consultant. She serves as a digital citizenship policy advisor to numerous public and independent schools. Dr. Heitner has spoken at Google Chicago, SXSWedu, TEDx, ISTE, the Family Online Safety Institute and The National Digital CItizenship Summit. Her writing has appeared on PBS Kids, Edutopia, The Association for Middle Level Education Newsletter, and The Ashoka Institute's Changemakers site. Her book, Mentorship Matters: Raising Digital Natives, is forthcoming in 2016 with Bibliomotion Press. Dr. Heitner has a Ph.D. in Media/Technology and Society from Northwestern University and is the co-author of the
Connecting Wisely Social/Emotional Digital Citizenship curriculum (Youthlight Press, 2015).