Speakers
Oregon Parenting Educators Conference
Keynote Speakers
Terri Trespicio
Keynote Address: Rewrite the Rules: How to Question What You’ve Been Told & Tap Your Personal Power
Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, and the author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (Atria/Simon & Schuster 2021), which the Washington Post called one of the best feel-good reads of the year. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has been viewed nearly 8 million times. Terri helps leaders, professionals, business owners, thought leaders and more stop searching for their passion and start making things happen. Her courses, workshops and retreats help you unlock your creative genius to fuel your stand out ideas. A former magazine editor at Martha Stewart, she’s been featured in Marie Claire, Jezebel, Business Insider, Oprah magazine, on the Today show, and others. She lives in Manhattan. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and won first place for creative nonfiction in the Baltimore Review’s 2016 literary contest. Access her free mini-course, “The Passion Trap: 5 Half Truths Keeping You From Living a Full Life” at territrespicio.com/trap.
Adriana Alejandre
Keynote Address: A Story of Healing: Overcoming Stigmas, Cultural Barriers, and Trauma in the Latinx Community
Adriana Alejandra Alejandre is a Guatemalan-Mexican 30 year old and the founder of internationally recognized, Latinx Therapy, a directory and a bilingual podcast that destigmatizes mental health myths & provides education to combat the stigma through technology and in-person services. The inspiration to create Latinx Therapy in 2018 derived from her experience as a single, teen mom with postpartum depression, and her later frustration in finding relatable, relevant resources for her Latinx clients as a therapist.
Her podcast has been featured in iTunes’ Top 200, Spotify’s Top 30 Latin shows, Apple Podcasts’, HipLatina and has been heard in over 112 countries. In 2019, she won Hispanizice’s TECLA award for Best Social Good Content award. Hispanicize and Instagram recognized 5 Latinx influencers for their social activism, Adriana as one of them for the #YoSoy award.
Adriana is also a Trauma Psychotherapist and Speaker from Los Angeles, California with a practice in Burbank. She specializes in adults who struggle with PTSD, anxiety, dissociation and who identify as passive communicators. She has done disaster relief work for Hurricane Harvey and Las Vegas shooting survivors. Adriana’s expertise has been featured in Univision, LA Times, USA Today, the New York Times and Buzzfeed.
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