Community
Speaker Series
Parent Education
Open to the public, this speaker series explores a range of parent education topics and philosophies. It is designed to provide opportunities for parents, educators and the community at large to practice life-long learning, whether about Montessori and other educational philosophies and programs, or about parenting in general.Thanks to the outpouring of generosity from donors, the Omran-Nelson Speaker Series has been established in memory of our friends and former teachers, Sue Omran and Brien Nelson. With financial support from this fund, we intend to bring outstanding thought leaders to the South Shore, who—in the tradition of Maria Montessori—challenge, inspire, and guide us to become the best educators and parents we can be.
Dr. Derrick Gay | January 14, 2021
“We all have claim to and benefit from diversity,” explains Dr. Derrick Gay. “We need to understand this as we strive to foster a society in which, no matter who you are, where you came from, what you have, what you don’t have, no matter whom you love or whom you worship, or choose not to worship, you can, quite simply, flourish.”
Dr. Derrick Gay is a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Strategist who, over the past 23 years, has partnered with over 500 organizations across numerous sectors to deepen D&I capacity; enhance inclusion and engagement, and design strategy to maximize business and education goals.
Dr. Gay has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Business of Fashion, The Huffington Post, El Tiempo Latino and on NPR, The Brian Lehrer Show, and 60 Minutes. He is also a Forbes contributor and has produced two TEDx Talks.
Dr. Derrick Gay’s TEDx Talk “The Double Edged Sword”
David Brebner | November 14, 2019
David Brebner is a leading thinker in user interaction, software design, 3D machine vision, AR, IoT, AI and solutions architecture.
Tommy Orange | October 25, 2018
Tommy Orange, author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There, Orange's debut novel is on the longlist for the 2018 National Book Award.
Open to the public, the event will begin with a reading, by Tommy. There There tackles issues of identity and belonging for Native people living in urban environments and battles against the monolithic stereotype often applied to Native people and their culture. The reading will be followed by a conversational-style interview, hosted by Boston Globe Correspondent, author and carpenter, Nina MacLaughlin, and will explore issues of Native struggles, the Native renaissance, what it means to be Native today and Tommy’s own experiences growing up Native in a big city.
Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California, and currently lives in Angel’s Camp, California.
Nina MacLaughlin works as a writer and a carpenter and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She's a columnist for the Boston Globe and her first book, “Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter” was published in 2015. MacLaughlin'swork has also appeared in the Paris Review, Boston Magazine, the LA Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere.
Dr. Devorah Heitner | April 11, 2018
Dr. Heitner is the authority that parents turn to for empowering, research-based advice on raising resilient and kind kids in our always-connected, increasingly challenging world. Her talks take on common issues ranging from repairing digital mistakes and increasing empathy in our digital interactions to understanding changing conceptions of personal privacy and creating a culture of responsible, digital citizenship.
Sara Mardini | April 12, 2017
Sara Mardini, whose story of bravery and resilience astonished the world, spoke at Inly about her flight from Syria, her heroic and life-saving act of courage, and her on-going work to advocate for refugee and women’s rights.
Sara, a top-tier, competitive swimmer from a young age, now lives and works in Greece and is currently a volunteer lifeguard for Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI), a Greek nonprofit organization that provides emergency response and humanitarian aid in times of crisis. In 2016, Sara was a speaker and ambassador for the first-ever Refugee team at the Rio Olympics and also spoke at the first-ever United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants. She has given talks around the world and is the focus of an in-production documentary titled “She is Syria”.
Read Sara’s incredible story here.
David Rose | November 9, 2016
David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and instructor at the MIT Media Lab.
Rose's research focuses on making the physical environment an interface to digital information. David is the CEO at Ditto Labs, an image-recognition software platform which scours social media photos to find brands and products. His book, Enchanted Objects, focuses on the future of the internet of things, and how these technologies will impact the ways we live and work.
Learn more about David Rose here.
Jessica Lahey | April 6, 2016
New York Times columnist and best-selling author Jessica Lahey visited Inly School on April 6, 2016 to speak and sign copies of her book The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed.
Rob Lieber | May 19, 2015
John Hunter | April 9, 2014
Joe Ehrmann | October 23, 2013
Dr. Deepak Chopra & Dr. Rudy Tanzi | December 4, 2012
Sue Omran
Brien Nelson
Welcome to Inly, a private, independent Montessori school with innovative programs that inspire toddlers, preschool and K-8 students to become independent, lifelong learners. Our inviting community draws students from 20 towns on the South Shore of Boston,
including Scituate, Cohasset, Hingham, Norwell, Hanover, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth and Hull.
including Scituate, Cohasset, Hingham, Norwell, Hanover, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth and Hull.
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