We're excited to announce that our keynote speaker is Dr. Mike Mena, an academic influencer and CUNY faculty. His YouTube Channel, 'The Social Life of Language,' is designed to bring complex theoretical academic work on language into the realm of public discourse in a way that is “simple, but never simplified.”  This lines up nicely with our theme, From the Streets to the Syllabus and Back. A lil more on Dr. Mike Mena.