Keynotes

Johnette has given keynote addresses on five continents as a children’s musician, author, cut-paper collage illustrator, and haiku poet for organizations such as:

  • TESOL

  • AmidEast, Middle East and North Africa

  • ACCESS, Middle East and Central America

  • US State Department

  • US Department of Cultural Affairs

  • Nicaribbean Teachers Conference, Bluefields, Nicaragua

  • Panama Teachers Conference, Panama City, Panama

  • MATE Teachers Conference in Tangier, Morocco

  • Instituto Guatemalteco Americano, Guatemala City, Guatemala

  • National Teachers’ Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala

  • Children’s Music Network National Gathering, Los Angeles, CA

  • Southeast District Teacher Conference, Orange Beach, AL

  • Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, LA

  • Louisiana Teenage Librarians Association, Alexandria, LA

  • Louisiana Association for the Education of Young Children, LA

  • CENLA AEYC, Alexandria, LA

  • Greater New Orleans Association for the Education of Young Children, New Orleans, LA

  • Mississippi Reading Association Conference, Biloxi, MS

  • Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, AR

  • JambaLAya Conference, SCBWI, New Orleans, LA

  • Louisiana Library Association, Baton Rouge, LA

  • among others