Introducing your Convention 2025 Speaker Lineup!
We’re proud to announce the speaker lineup for AOII Convention 2025! This year’s speakers are sure to bring insight, inspiration, and impact to our time together.
Joining us in Palm Springs:
Emily Calandrelli, MIT-engineer turned Emmy-nominated science TV host, author, and the 100th woman to fly to space
Shelby Clement, founder, voice of Damn Good Marketing Podcast and creator of Damn Good Marketing Live
Steve Taylor, President & CEO of the Arthritis Foundation
Ana Villafañe, Broadway, film, & TV star; diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis at age 7
Susan Bonifield, Alpha Omicron Pi International President
About Emily Calandrelli
Emily Calandrelli is best known as the host and co-executive producer of the hit Netflix series Emily’s Wonder Lab and to her growing army of followers on social media as “The Space Gal”. Following her recent spaceflight with Blue Origin, Emily is also known as the 100th Woman in Space. Additionally, Emily is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Emmy Nominated Executive Producer and Host of FOX’s Xploration Outer Space and was a correspondent on Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves The World.
Named to Adweek’s “11 Celebrities and Influencers Raising the Bar for Creativity”, Emily is an accomplished writer with seven titles published and three more on the way. Her award-winning chapter book series, “The Ada Lace Adventures”, released a sixth title in October 2023. The third book, “Ada Lace: Take Me to Your Leader”, was part of the initiative from NASA and CASIS, Story Time from Space where the book was launched into space and read by an astronaut aboard the ISS to an audience of kids.
In addition to the Ada Lace titles Emily released her first picture book in 2022 titled “Reach for the Stars” which debuted as the #1 New Release in its category on Amazon. Most recently Emily released “Stay Curious and Keep Exploring”, featuring 50 experiments for the whole family, which debuted in the top-15 on the Publisher’s Weekly Non-Fiction Best Sellers List. A sequel, “Stay Curious and Keep Exploring: Next Level” was just released and debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Prior to her work in science communication, Emily attended West Virginia University, where she received a Bachelors of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, and MIT where she received two Masters of Science degrees, one in Aeronautics and Astronautics and the other in Technology and Policy. Through her work, she wants to make science relatable, easy to understand and more exciting today than ever before in history.
Follow along with Emily!
IG: @thespacegal
FB: TheSpaceGal
TikTok: @thespacegal
About Shelby Clement
Shelby Clement is a Louisiana-born marketing expert, mom of two wild boys, wife to hunk of a husband, and the founder of Shelby Clement Marketing—a no-fluff, high-impact social media agency that helps small business owners increase their brand awareness and actually see results online.
She’s also the voice behind the Damn Good Marketing podcast, where she keeps it real, drops truth bombs, and doesn’t sugarcoat what it takes to build a brand in today’s world. Oh, and she’s the creator of Damn Good Marketing Live—an annual marketing event that breaks down big-business strategy into real-life action for small-town entrepreneurs and bold dreamers alike.
Before building her multi-six-figure brand, Shelby was in corporate—where she didn’t even make six figures (more like five) and was treated more like a receptionist than a Marketing Director. She walked away from the comfort zone, followed God’s nudge, and built something most people told her wasn’t possible.
Now? She’s here to help you show up, stand out, and scale in a way that feels human, holy, and hella powerful.
Let’s freaking get it.
Follow along with Shelby!
IG: @itsshelbyclement
Website: shelbyclement.com
About Ana Villafañe
Broadway, film and TV star Ana Villafañe will next be seen as the title role in upcoming feature film Castro’s Daughter opposite James Franco. Last summer Villafañe starred in the world premiere of N/A at Lincoln Center opposite Holland Taylor, directed by Diane Paulus. Her supernova Broadway debut was originating the role of ‘Gloria Estefan’ in global hit musical On Your Feet (Theatre World and Drama League awards). In 2021, Ana returned to re-open Broadway post-pandemic, as the iconic Roxie Hart in Chicago. Off-Broadway, she was ‘Nina Rosario’ in the Kennedy Center’s 2018 production of In the Heights by Lin Manuel Miranda, and earned her second Drama League Award in 2019 for MCC’s Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties by Jen Silverman. On screen she is known for New Amsterdam andYounger, both on Netflix. Currently the voice of ‘Eva 8’ on WondLa, based on the bestselling book series (AppleTV+). Named one of the New York Times’ “30 under 30” and honored by countless organizations for trailblazing Latin representation. Ana is on the Board of Directors for Hole In the Wall Gang Camp founded by Paul Newman, and is a national advocate for the Arthritis Foundation. She will next embody Hollywood icon ‘Ava Gardner’ in Sinatra; the Musical on Broadway directed by Kathleen Marshall.
Follow along with Ana!
IG: @anavillafaneofficial