Creative Hustle: Blazing a Path from Our Gifts to Our Goals (Part of the T&L Series)

COST:
$50 Non Series registrants

Free if your school is a registered for the series.  Please reach out to your school contact for the promo code.

Schools Registered for the T&L Series:
Solebury School
George School
Westtown School
Fanny Edel Falk Laboratory School
The Agnes Irwin School
Lancaster Country Day School
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
Academy of Notre Dame de Namur
The Janus School
Winchester Thurston School
St. Peter's School
Ancillae-Assumpta Academy
Germantown Academy
William Penn Charter School
Sanford School
Shady Side Academy
St. Edmund's Academy
Scranton Preparatory School
Villa Maria Academy High School
Friends' Central School

Act 48 Credits are available for this program. 

SESSION DETAILS & SPEAKER BIO

Wednesday, April 14, 2027
Creative Hustle: Blazing a Path from Our Gifts to Our Goals
In this interactive 90-minute workshop, participants will dive into the core principles of Creative Hustle, learn how to identify their unique gifts, and explore strategies for aligning their passions with their goals. Through engaging activities and group discussions, participants will gain valuable insights and tools for unlocking their—and their staff’s and students’—creative potential.

Meet the Presenters: Sam Seidel and Olatunde Sobomedin
Sam Seidel is the K12 Lab Director of Strategy + Research and Director of Products + Publications at the Stanford d.school. Sam is the co-author of Creative Hustle: Blaze Your Own Path and Make Work That Matters, Hip Hop Genius 2.0: Remixing High School Education, and Changing the Conversation About School Safety. He is co-editor of From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Identity. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, Education Week, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The 74, Voices in Urban Education, and UnBoxed. He speaks and consults internationally about design, race, culture, and education. Sam has taught in a variety of settings from a public first grade classroom to Ivy League graduate programs. He has built and directed programs with and for young people affected by incarceration. And he has led design strategy projects for organizations throughout the country. He is always learning.

Olatunde Sobomehin is the 2025 Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Stanford Accelerator for Learning. As a student at Stanford from 1998 to 2003, he held leadership positions in Alpha Phi Alpha, Nu Sigma Chapter, the NAACP, and STeP Up (Students using Technology to Empower People for United Progress), a student group he founded. He also led a public speaking course in the School of Engineering and competed on Stanford’s Top-25 Men’s Basketball team, where he was voted Most Inspirational Player (2003). Since graduating, he has taught courses through the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service and the Stanford d.school, where he also co-authored the book Creative Hustle with sam seidel.

In 2014, Olatunde co-founded StreetCode Academy, an East Palo Alto–based nonprofit that offers free technology education to communities of color. Under his leadership, StreetCode has become a national model for community-based innovation, serving more than 3,000 students annually and delivering over 50,000 hours of free instruction. His body of work has earned him recognition as a 2018 Aspen Institute Scholar, a 2019 Praxis Fellow, and a 2020 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow at Stanford University.