2025 APC Summer Forum Featured Speaker

Kendra Janelle Ross, PhD

Head of Social Impact, Duolingo

Kendra Janelle Ross is a multi-disciplinary professional with 20+ years of experience in entertainment, tech, and higher education. Her passions meet at the nexus between arts and culture, technology, education, and community. A lifelong creative and strategic leader with varied experiences from the stage and recording studio to the boardroom and the classroom, Kendra specializes in ushering people, processes, technologies, and communities toward transformational change.