Keynote Speakers

Sally M. Reis
Sally M. Reis is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Teaching Fellow in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as Principal Investigator of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored more than 120 articles, 14 books, 50 book chapters, and numerous monographs and technical reports. She has traveled extensively across the country conducting workshops and providing professional development for school districts on enrichment programs and gender equity programs. She is co-author of The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, The Secondary Triad Model, Dilemmas in Talent Development in the Middle Years, and a new book published in 1998 about talent development in females entitled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females. Sally serves on the editorial board of the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past-president of The National Association for Gifted Children.
- Ph.D., Educational Psychology of the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut, 1981
- M.S., Special Education of the Gifted and Talented, Southern Connecticut State College, 1977;
- B.A., English and Psychology, Chatham College, 1973

Carrie Finlinson
Carrie Finlinson taught junior high English for five years in Davis School District. She was voted Millcreek Junior High School's teacher of the year and was trained in the Utah Writing Project through Utah State University. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in English and has a Master's Degree in Secondary and Gifted and Talented Education from Utah State University. She is the co-owner of Write On! Workshops, a company that runs a writing summer camp for elementary age children and a teacher for University of Utah’s Youth Academy of Excellence.