Key moments of the Scripps Spelling Bee 2022
It was a compelling question. “What are you going to do to make sure there are more winners who look like me?” Zaila Avant-garde asked Michael Durnil, CEO of Scripps National Spelling Bee, at the 2022 South By Southwest Conference in Texas. The previous year, Zaila, then a 14-year-old eighth-grader from Harvey, La., Became the …