2021 USPAA National Conference (Virtual)

The conference will be held June 7 through 11 during the workday. The exact schedule will be sent at a later date.

Keynote Speaker

We are thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for this year's conference, Julie Lythcott-Haims. Lythcott-Haims believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She is the New York Timesbestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult. Her TED Talk on the subject has more than 5 million views, and in 2020 she became a regular contributor with CBS This Morning on parenting. Her second book is the critically-acclaimed and award-winning prose poetry memoir Real American, which illustrates her experience as a Black and biracial person in white spaces. A third book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, will be out in April 2021.

Lythcott-Haims is a former corporate lawyer and Stanford dean,and she holds a BA…