Speaker

Sherry Johnson

Dr. Sherry Johnson is the Tribal Education Director for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate for the past 9 years. She is the administrator over numerous grants and programs. She networks with the tribal and public school districts and all programs dealing with education, facilitates communication and promotes educational excellence for the members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. Her past experiences include being a Superintendent at a school district for 15 years and working as a Teacher for 10 years at a tribal school. She earned her Doctorate from the University of South Dakota in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Educational Leadership. Others: Masters in Science Education. Bachelors in Elementary Education. School Improvement Certification from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, along with various certifications and publications. Dr. Johnson is married to Louie and they have 8 children. They make their home in Buffalo Lake near Eden in the Northeast corner of South Dakota.

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Speaker

Deepak Ramola

​Deepak Ramola is a wisdom historian and award-winning educator. He currently serves as a lecture and life design fellow at Stanford University and co-teaches the ‘Meaning of Life’ course at MIT. A graduate of Harvard GSE, he previously served as the Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP. Over the last 15 years, Deepak has worked at the intersection of wisdom and lifelong learning through his organization Project FUEL, collecting life lessons from 195 countries. His methodology has been recognized as world's top 100 innovations in education and has been adopted across five continents. Deepak is also an accomplished author, with three bestselling books spanning poetry, self-help, and narrative non-fiction. 

Speaker

Charlotte Hankin

Charlotte is an international educator and PhD researcher interested in how education might respond more carefully to nature, place, and multispecies relations in increasingly fragile worlds. Her work explores how complex ecological relationships can be felt, expressed, and learned-with to cultivate capacities for care, responsibility, and multispecies flourishing, and how educational narratives might be co-authored by many rather than by the few. 

She has over twenty-five years’ experience across teaching, leadership, school consultancy, and education policy advisory roles for the UK government, working in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Bali across K–12 and professional learning contexts. 

Employing posthumanist, feminist materialist theories, Charlotte is currently completing a PhD in Education at the University of Bath, UK, where her research explores animal–child relations through arts-based approaches. This work received an award from the Australian Journal of Environmental Education in 2025. Alongside her research, she co-founded Coconut Thinking and Unfolding Aliveness, both regenerative and creative educational consultancies and host the Green Spark podcast at Green School Bali.