Pam Allyn is the founder and CEO of Dewey, a pioneering learning platform built to fuel the wellbeing of families and their caregivers at the powerful intersections of home, work and learning.

She is a leading literacy expert, author, activist and advocate for children, and a motivational speaker. She founded LitLife to bring quality professional learning to teachers across the United States. She created LitWorld, a groundbreaking global literacy movement serving children across the United States and in more than 60 countries, and led her team to create the widely scaled LitCamp and World Read Aloud Day programs. Her pioneering idea to partner with women-led grassroots organizations working on behalf of their community's children was the foundation of LitWorld and has also been widely replicated. Pam has served as the Senior Vice President for Innovation and Development at Scholastic Education, and continues to contribute as a senior advisor across the company.

Pam is the author of 26 books for educators, leaders and families on reading, writing, and learning. Her most recent book is Every Child a Super Reader, co-authored with Dr. Ernest Morrell. Books for parents and caregivers include Your Child’s Writing Life, Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner; What To Read When; and Pam Allyn’s Best Books for Boys.

Pam has received many honors for her educational leadership achievements including The Children's Village Legacy of Service Award and the Kent Williamson Exemplary Leadership Award. She was a finalist for the Brock Prize in Education Innovation. Pam is a Kellogg Foundation Fellow Alumni in Racial Equity and Healing and a Bush Foundation Fellow for Women's Leadership. Pam received the Teachers College Columbia University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017.

She has keynoted many conferences and led workshops, seminars and trainings across the country and around the world on subjects including social emotional learning, educational equity, literacy, the power of reading, children's own stories, learning standards, motivational strategies to reach all children, and more. A proud mother to her own two daughters, Pam is continuously inspired by them and by all the many children and young adults she meets and works with around the world.