Lara Paparo is an author, educator, entrepreneur, and literacy instructor for the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She has instructed teachers in the areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening across the curriculum for 16 years through the Penn Literacy Network. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 2004 in Government, and her Masters degree and Pennsylvania teaching certification from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 in Secondary Education. She taught Social Studies at Penn Manor School District in Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2015. Lara also owns and operates a publishing company that she began in 2015, and has co-authored a number of books including one titled The Plainer Truths of Teaching, Learning and Literacy: A comprehensive guide to reading, writing, speaking and listening Pre-K-12 across the curriculum. She is also the author of several published and forthcoming children's books, including The Lost Sunglasses and Miles Gets the Runs.