Professor of Psychological Science, Northern Arizona University; Author, The Attention Spectrum: How Attention Really Works and How to Make It Work for You (Upcoming), A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student's Names (2024), Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World (2022), and Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology (2016)

President of Families and Work Institute; Senior Research Advisor, The School Superintendents Association (AASA); Co-Lead of the October 2025 AASA Summit, Real Skills for Real Life, who is currently piloting modules she created on Real Skills for nationwide distribution to school districts; Partner with Johns Hopkins University's International Arts + Mind Lab on the Youth Voice on Arts and Thriving Project; Former Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation; Past Faculty, Bank Street College; Author of the Award-Winning book, The Breakthrough Years: A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens (2024) and the Best-Seller, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs (2010)

Neurologist; Clinical Professor of Neurology, George Washington University, who explores the ever-present problem of screen distractions and what we can do to keep them from overwhelming our dwindling attention span; Author, Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload (2024) and Synesthesia (2018); Co-Author, Wednesday is Indigo Blue (2011), which won the Montaigne Medal; and The Man Who Tasted Shapes (2003)

Award-Winning Psychologist; International Speaker; Founder of the Internationally Renowned Institute on Media and Family; Co-Creator, Spark & Stitch Institute; Expert on the impacts of media on children who has testified numerous times before Congress, presented workshops throughout the world, and served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Ministries of Education in Japan, South Korea, Portugal and Singapore; Author, Reclaiming Young Minds: A Research-Based Guide to Building Deep Focus and Sustained Attention in the Digital Age (2026), Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen (2007), and No: Why Kids – of All Ages – Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It (2007)

Parent; Speaker; Co-Creator, Spark & Stitch Institute, who has worked with schools, school districts, parent groups and other youth serving organizations throughout the United States and Canada on issues related to digital media, parenting, and child and adolescent development; Author, It’s Their World: Teens, Screens, and the Science of Adolescence (2025)