Sherri Hope Culver

Sherri Hope Culver is an educator, a podcast and TV host, a consultant for children’s media, a media literacy advocate, and the person you can count on for a walloping supply of goofy camp songs. She is Director of the Center for Media and Information Literacy at Temple University, where she teaches in the Klein College of Media and Communication and leads the Certificate in Children’s Media.

Sherri is internationally recognized for her leadership in children’s media and media literacy. She served as a Fulbright Global Scholar and co-chair of the UNESCO Global Media Literacy Alliance, and has consulted for organizations such as TIME Studios, Fred Rogers Productions, Google Kids & Family, META, and PBS Kids. Her international work includes projects with UNESCO, Prix Jeunesse, the Thessaloniki Media Summer Academy, and the Public Journalism Club of Armenia.

She has spoken at conferences in over 20 countries, including the Children’s Global Media Summit, World Summit on Media for Children, and UNESCO Global MIL Week. Her recent report, The Quality Question: Why Children’s Media Must Aim High, builds on her Fulbright research. She has contributed chapters to several books and co-edited the international yearbook on Media and Information Literacy.

Sherri began her career in television, eventually serving as CEO of Independence Public Media. With a deep belief in the power of media to connect, educate, and inspire, she brings both serious expertise and joyful energy to everything she does.