How do we protect teens—this “anxious generation”—in an online world?
Teens and young adults face unprecedented mental health challenges, making community solidarity around online health and safety essential.
This symposium will provide students, parents, and educators with the latest research, strategies to build community consensus, and tools to create online guardrails that help adolescents thrive.
Symposium Speakers
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Jason Frost
Jason Frost is a nationally recognized advocate, author, and speaker focused on protecting children from digital harms and empowering youth to drive change. He equips young advocates to share their experiences and lead initiatives, including youth-led roundtables on Capitol Hill. His work has been featured by CNN, Fox News, and The New York Times, highlighting the risks of unregulated technology and calling for Big Tech accountability.
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Catherine Price
AUTHOR, HOW TO BREAK UP WITH YOUR PHONE
Catherine Price is an award-winning health and science journalist, founder of Screen/Life Balance, and bestselling author of books like How to Break Up With Your Phone. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and Popular Science. Her 2022 TED Talk was one of the most viewed of the year.
Bonus Event: Continuing the Conversation With Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at NYU’s Stern School of Business, with a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intuitive foundations of morality and its variations across cultural and political lines. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and the bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012) and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). His latest book, The Anxious Generation (2024), explores the rise of childhood mental illness.
General admission tickets to the TNSymposium on Jan 27th grants you exclusive access to the Virtual Webinar with Jonathan Haidt on Feb 13th at 12pm.
“Our society invests billions of dollars to educate youth on the dangers of tobacco, bad eating habits and drug abuse. Why not investing into empowering youth to combat digital harm and exploitation?”
Lipscomb University
Allen Arena
Address
1 University Park Dr, Nashville, TN 37204
Parking Info
Please park at the Allen Arena West Lot
4110 Belmont Blvd, Nashville, TN 37215
Symposium Agenda
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Main Session
4:30 - 5:30 PM
As a community come together to hear the latest research and action from online health and safety experts Jason Frost and Catherine Price.
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Conversations
5:30 - 6:15 PM
The symposium will break out into four role-based groups to walk through next steps and conversations. Breakouts include pre-cell phone students, students with cell phones, parents, and community leaders.
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Closing Session
6:15 - 6:30 PM
End the evening with conversation and an opportunity to meet and engage with symposium speakers and other community leaders.
Participating Schools + Groups
