COMMENCEMENT Speaker

DR. KEVIN D. CORDI

Dr. Kevin D. Cordi holds a doctorate in Storytelling and Education (Drama, Literature, Reading, Language, and Culture) from The Ohio State University. He teaches literacy, children and middle literature, storytelling, and education classes at Ohio University Lancaster where he serves as the Middle Childhood Coordinator. He served on the National Advisory Board for Learning for Justice with the Southern Poverty Law Center and is the current Chair for Storytelling for the National Council Teachers of English. He has authored books on narrative and learning, most recently “YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: A STORYTELLER GOES TO SCHOOL” (2019, University of Mississippi Press).

He believes that deep listening to his students is as important as the curriculum he teaches. He believes there is a powerful story at Ohio University Lancaster and every day his students show him it is true.