Pam Allyn

Who is Pam Allyn?

Pam Allyn is an American literacy expert and author. Pam is the Executive Director and founder of LitWorld, a global non-profit organization advocating for children’s rights as readers, writers, and learners. She is also the Executive Director and founder of LitLife, a national organization dedicated to school improvement. She is the author of the Your Child’s Writing Life, Pam Allyn’s Best Books for Boys: How To Engage Boys in Reading in Ways That Will Change Their Lives, What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child–And All The Best Times To Read Them, and Be Core Ready: Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards. Pam is widely known as a motivational speaker advocating for reading and writing as human rights that belong to all people. Her personal quest to bring literacy to every child stems from a deeper desire to bring dignity to every child, and to empower children to read and write powerfully, effectively and with passion in ways that will change their worlds and the worlds of others. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, The Huffington Post, and in The New York Times. Pam is the Global Ambassador for Scholastic's "Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life." Campaign. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement, James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead, the Pearson Foundation's We Give Books, and the Millennium Cities Initiative Fellowship to help young Egyptian women develop leadership skills. She received the 2013 Literacy Champion Award from Scholastic in September.