A few notable appearances

• New York Times (2020)
• The Green Parent (2019)
• Chris Guillebeau (2016)
• Psychology Today (2016)
• Christian Science Monitor (2016)
• BBC Travel (2013)
• USA Today (2013)
• New York Times (2012)
• Wired.com (2012)

Here’s the full list.

Podcast, video, radio

• Microcollege (Apr 2024)
• This Golden Hour (Dec 2023)
• Self Directed (Dec 2023)
• Homeschooling with Dyslexia (Nov 2023 / recorded Aug 2021)
• CSH German-American Business Community (Dec 2022)
• Rogue Learner (March 2022)
• Radical Learning Talks (Jan 2022)
• Bravewriter (Nov 2021)
• InspirEd with Galileo (Nov 2021)
• When School’s Not Working (Aug 16, 2021)
• Reinventing School (June 22, 2021)
• Emergency Home Learning Summit (Nov 19, 2020)
• PrepTalks (Nov 11, 2020)
• Authors Who Lead (Oct 1, 2020)
• Ready to Redo (Sep 30, 2020)
• High School Hamster Wheel (Sep 19, 2020)
• Growth Mindset University (Aug 17, 2020)
• Raising Lifelong Learners (Aug 5, 2020)
• Leading Learning (July 21, 2020)
• Homeschool Coffee Break (July 9, 2020)
• KSQD Santa Cruz (July 6, 2020)
• Homeschool Global Summit keynote (July 3, 2020)
• StartEdUp (July 1, 2020)
• Sage Family (June 2, 2020)
• WRUU “Women on Top” radio (May 27, 2020)
• Honey, I’m Homeschooling the Kids (May 27, 2020)
• Zero to Travel (May 26, 2020)
• Tuf Love (May 21, 2020)
• Tilt Parenting (May 19, 2020)
• The Luminous Mind (May 19, 2020)
• We Turned Out Okay (May 19, 2020)
• Worldschooling Education Live (May 14, 2020)
• A Neighbor’s Choice (May 13, 2020)
• Interview with Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang (May 8, 2020)
• Disrupt Education (April 28, 2020)
• Super Power U (Nov 14, 2019)
• College Essay Guy podcast (Oct 4, 2019)
• Lars og Pål podcast (Sep 19, 2019)
• Honey, I’m Homeschooling the Kids podcast (Mar 22, 2019)
• Tilt Parenting podcast (Feb 26, 2019)
• AEROx Virtual Gathering (Feb 23, 2019)
• We Turned Out Okay podcast (Feb 6, 2019)
• School Sucks podcast (March 20, 2018) / part two
• NatChat podcast (Oct 26, 2017)
• Successful Dropout podcast (May 29, 2017)
• The World Wanderers podcast (Dec 1, 2016)
• Driven 2 Educate podcast (Nov 24, 2016)
• Raising Rebellion podcast (Nov 13, 2016)
• Zero to Travel podcast (Oct 13, 2016)
• The Luminous Mind podcast (Mar 23, 2016)
• We Turned Out Okay podcast (Dec 14, 2015)
• Isaac Morehouse podcast (July 20, 2015) – a favorite of mine
• Unschooling webinar with The Optimist(June 24, 2015)
• Meet Education Project podcast (February 20, 2015)
• The Unschooling Life podcast (December 9, 2014)
• Interview with Carlos Miceli –  Is Traditional Education for You? (Feb 25, 2014)
• Wall Street Journal “Digits” – How to Get Strangers to Pay for Your Travel (Dec 18, 2013)
• Ask Howie podcast interview: Does School Kill Entrepreneurship? (May 16, 2013)
• Minnesota Public Radio (Dec 28th, 2012)
• Future of Education podcast (Oct 11, 2012)
• Reason TV (Oct 7, 2012)
• Imus in the Morning (Sep 17, 2012)
• Moneywise Guys Radio Show – Bakersfield, CA (Sep 13, 2012)
• KPCC 89.3 (Southern California NPR) (July 5, 2012)
• WFAE “Charlotte Talks” radio program (audio) (May 10, 2012)
• Whatever Whatever Amen podcast (March 7, 2012)
• Ignite Asheville (1st place!) (February 21, 2012)
• Unschooler.com podcast interview (and follow-up)  (April 18, 2011)
• TEDx (Nov 20, 2010 in Palo Alto, CA)
• Roy Green Show radio interview (October 25, 2009)
• Dave Rutherford Show radio interview — 750,000 listeners in Canada (October 22, 2009)

Group presentations

• Learnlife Barcelona (Apr 10, 2024)
• University of Freiburg (Dec 14, 2023)
• Urban Homeschoolers (May 12, 2023, online)
• Moab (Utah) Public High School (May 4, 2023)
• Liberated Learners (April 12, 2023, online)
• El Chaltén (Argentina) Public High School (March 27+30, 2023)
• Bloom Academy (Las Vegas, Jan 27, 2023)
• Macomber Center (Boston, Jan 23, 2023)
• Learnlife Barcelona (April 29, 2022)
• Urban Homeschoolers teen workshop + parent talk (July 14-16, 2021 in Los Angeles)
• MoL Academy (July 7, 2021, online)
• Carl Shurz Haus (Nov 17, 2020, online)
• Prisma (Nov 6, 2020, online)
• Home & Hybrid Education (Oct 24, 2020, online)
• Homeschool Alliance (May 12, 2020, online)
• Demokratische Schule X (September 28, 2019 in Berlin)
• Inspire Charter Schools (September 7, 2019 in Rocklin, CA)
• The Power and Peril of Self-Education (September 1, 2019 in Portland, OR)
• Dida Academy & Cottonwood NYC (May 2019 in Brooklyn, NY)
• Education Outside School (May 5, 2017 in Peterborough, U.K.)
• The Future of Education (March 25, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Lucchesi Community Center (Dec 13, 2016 in Petaluma, CA)
• Philly Free School (Nov 28, 2016 in Philadelphia, PA)
• Bay State Learning Center (Nov 17, 2016 in Dedham, MA)
• Macomber Center (November 30, 2015 in Framingham, MA)
• Princeton Learning Cooperative (December 10, 2015 in Princeton, NJ)
• Open Road teen workshops (Aug 12-13, 2015 in Portland, OR)
• Urban Homeschoolers teen workshops (March 23-24, 2015 in Los Angeles)
• Private teen workshop series (March 16-18, 2015 in Chicago)
• Greenfields Academy (March 15, 2015 in Chicago)
• Beacon Self-Directed Learning (Dec 20, 2014 in New Haven, CT)
• Knowmads (Feb 14, 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Good Reasons to Quit School—And What to Do Instead (July 3, 2013 in Asheville, NC)
• Firestorm Cafe & Books (Dec 14, 2010 in Asheville, NC)
• Unschool Your Teen Seminar (Oct 2, 2010 in Palo Alto, CA)
• Teaching Parents Association (Sep 9, 2010 in Woodinville, WA)
• Jordan Lake Sudbury School (March 16, 2010 in Raleigh, NC)
• Trestle Homeschool Group (Oct 27, 2009 in Everett, WA)
• Nanaimo Public Library (Oct 26, 2009 in Nanaimo, BC, Canada)
• North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens (Oct 8, 2009 in Hadley, MA)
• Village Home Education Resource Center. (Feb 25, 2009 in Beaverton, OR)

Conferences

• Gap Year Association Conference (May 22, 2023, in Missoula, MT)
• Home and Hybrid Education Conference (July 10, 2021, online)
• Central Valley Homeschool Convention keynote (July 11-13, 2019 in Fresno, CA)
• AERO Conference keynote (June 26-30, 2019 in Portland, OR)
• CHN Family Expo keynote (May 4, 2019 in Garden Grove, CA)
• Self-Directed Voices (June 9, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain)
• HSC Conference featured speaker (July 27-30, 2017 in San Francisco, CA)
• AltPath keynote in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (April 29, 2017)
• Bay Area Homeschool Fair keynote (May 19, 2016)
• VaHomeschoolers Conference & Resource Fair keynote (March 20-21, 2015 in Richmond, VA)
• Hogwarts for Unschoolers at Homeschool+ Conference (August 7, 2014, online)
• HSC Conference (August 2-3, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA)
• CHN Family Expo commencement speaker (June 19-22, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA)
• InHome Conference (Mar 14-16, 2014 in Chicago, IL)
• HSC Conference (August 1-3, 2013 in Sacramento, CA)
• AERO Conference (May 23-26, 2013 in Long Island, NY)
• True Colors Conference (March 21-22, 2013 in Hartford, CT)
• Wide Sky Days Conference (Sept 5-9, 2012 in San Diego, CA)
• CHN Family Expo Graduation Host (July 19-22, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA)
• InHome Conference (March 15-17, 2012 in Chicago, IL)
• Good Vibrations Conference  (Sept 8-12, 2011 in San Diego, CA)
• HSC Conference (August 6, 2011 in Sacramento, CA)
• InHome Conference Keynote (March 24-26, 2011 in Chicago, IL)
• HSC Conference (Aug 19-22, 2010 in Sacramento, CA)
• UHEA Convention Teen Keynote (June 12, 2010 in Salt Lake City, UT)
• Life is Good Conference (May 27-30, 2010 in Vancouver, WA)
• InHome Conference (March 18-20, 2010 in Chicago, IL)
• The Autodidact Symposium (March 12-14, 2010 in Columbia, SC)
• SHEA Conference (Sep 14-16, 2009 in Anaheim, CA)
• HSC Conference (Aug 6-9, 2009 in Sacramento, CA)

2018 Speaking Tour

Spring

• Urban Homeschoolers (April 9 & 10, 2018, in Los Angeles, CA)
• OC Gifted Group – event page (April 8, 2018 in Newport Beach, CA)
• QuantumCamp – event page (March 22, 2018 in Palo Alto, CA)
• Sunnyside Micro-School – event page (March 21, 2018 in Berkeley, CA)
• QuantumCamp – event page (March 20, 2018 in Berkeley, CA)
• Unschool – event page (March 19, 2018 in Sacramento, CA)
• NOMAD – event page (Mar 15, 2018 in San Francisco, CA)
• Wayfinding Academy – event page (Feb 24, 2018 in Portland, OR)
• Marrow PDX – event page (Feb 23, 2018 in Portland, OR)

Fall

• Tahoe Mountain Lab (Aug 10 in South Lake Tahoe, CA)
• The Hive (Sept 5 in Eugene, OR)
• Gaia Democratic School (Sept 14 in Minneapolis, MN)
• Greenfields Academy (Sept 17 in Chicago, IL)
• Clonlara School (Sept 20 in Ann Arbor, MI)
• Beacon (Sept 25 in New Haven, CT)
• Big Fish Learning Community (Sept 27 in Dover, NH)
• Bay State Learning Center (Oct 1 in Watertown, MA)
• Macomber Center (Oct 3 in Framingham, MA)
• North Star (Oct 29 in Sunderland, MA)
• Kate Friedman’s Turn & Talk (Nov 6 in Brooklyn, NY)
• Princeton Learning Cooperative (Nov 8 in Princeton, NJ)
• Raw Learning (Nov 9 in Staunton, VA)
• ALC Mosaic (Nov 14 in Charlotte, NC)
• Embark Center (Nov 17 in Leesburg, VA)