Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King is the founder and executive director of Agency for Emerging Voices, Inc.. Elizabeth also serves as president of Think Tank Education International, Inc./Elizabeth King Coaching, Inc., a boutique online SAT and ACT preparation company currently serving students on four continents. She is the author of OUTSMARTING the SAT (Random House/Ten Speed, 2008), coauthor of Lou Imbriano’s Winning the Customer (McGraw-Hill, 2011), and Acing the ACT (Random House/Ten Speed 2015). Elizabeth’s writing, speaking, and consulting roles revolve around examining and cultivating personal development, critical thinking, quality culture, creativity, intelligence, and learning.

She writes about culture, creativity, education, and discipline on the popular blog StayOutOfSchool.com, which she founded in 2010. She was highlighted by Fast Company Magazine in 2012 as a thriving member of “Generation Flux” and she has appeared as a guest on Oprah Sirius Radio’s Derrick Ashong Experience. The US Olympic team highlighted her interviews with Olympic gold medalist Barbara Ann Cochran about applying mental toughness to test taking and her thoughts on testing and education have been referenced in the NY Times, Wall Street Journal on Campus, and across the web.

Elizabeth serves as a board member for the New York non-profit opera organization North Shore Music Festival, Inc. and the startup Smart Coos, Inc., a learning program for fostering multilingual fluency and better family communication beginning in infancy. Elizabeth graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2001 with a special Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Economics. She is the recipient of a Mount Holyoke College Class of 1905 Alumnae Fellowship and a Mount Holyoke College Bardwell Fellowship.