Speakers

Kandice is a teacher turned motivational coach, speaker, and writer. She is on a mission to encourage women to unleash their creativity and live the life that that really want. She writes about creativity, motherhood, freelancing, and self care.

Kandice attended the University of Chicago, earning her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and her Master’s in Teaching. She was the 2005 recipient of the Rockefeller Brother’s Fund Fellowship for Teachers of Color. She started her teaching career in Sacramento and then went on to teach in elementary classrooms in Chicago. After leaving the formal classroom, she found other opportunities to utilize her teaching skills. She has been a consultant for the University of Chicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program; facilitated workshops for many organizations, and worked in the non-profit sector.