Rebecca Gotlieb, PhD is a human developmental psychologist and educational neuroscientist. She is research faculty in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Gotlieb’s work examines the development of literacy and social emotional functioning in early childhood through young adulthood, with a special emphasis on the role of narrative skills. She is a contributing member of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice and of the University of California/California State University Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning. She has served as Principal Investigator or CO-PI on several federally and privately funded research projects and her work has been published in top journals for researchers and educational practitioners. Dr. Gotlieb completed her B.A. with High Honors from Dartmouth College. She earned a Ph.D. as a National Science Foundation Research Fellow in the Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education at the University of Southern California and completed post-doctoral training at UCLA.