Anya Kamenetz

Anya Kamenetz is an award-winning educationcorrespondent for NPR, where she also co-hosts thepodcast Life Kit:Parenting.

Life Kit: Parenting gives research-based strategies for real issues families face. One of our partners is Sesame Workshop. Kamenetz is the author of several acclaimed books on learning and the future. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018).

Her previous books were Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education; and The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized Testing, But You Don’t Have To Be. Her forth coming book, The Stolen Year, is about children in the time of COVID.

Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair

For the past 25+ years, Dr. Steiner-Adair's work as a clinical psychologist, researcher, author and consultant has converged on one fundamental mission: Ensuring that today’s students – our children – have not just the technological tools they need as they inherit the AI future, but the tools of our humanity – the empathy, ethics, social and emotional intelligence and DEI competencies they need to survive and thrive in our ever-changing interconnected world.

She speak at schools and conferences worldwide, working
with students of all ages, educators. Since the pandemic, she has been doing webinars for conferences, schools, parenting consultation and therapy online while hibernating in Maine.

Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair a clinical psychologist and
consultant, and author of the award-winning book, The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age. She is an expert in child development, education, and family relationships, and a frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader for parents, educators, health professionals and industry leaders worldwide. She works with school leaders to develop initiatives that strengthen resilience and all the elements of wellbeing, adapting bestpractices in using technology while minimizing the risks it poses at school and home. Catherine was for 20+ years a Clinical Instructor and Research Associate at Harvard Medical School, and has been a resource for the media throughout her career.

Elisabeth Stitt

When you want to raise happy, healthy and productive kids that are prepared for whatever life throws at them at today, Elisabeth Stitt is your “go to” parenting coach and expert. Kids don’t come with an Operating Manual—so if you think you’re supposed to know how to parent or that it’s built into your DNA—that’s just not true. With over 50,000 hours of working with kids and parents to support her in her work, Elisabeth can guide parents through any situation. Parenting is tough enough in normal circumstances, and it’s a skill: It can be taught, learned and practiced. Author of Parenting as a Second Language and a long-time teacher with the Redwood City School District, Elisabeth Stitt brings 25+ years of working with kids of all ages to her work with parents. Through her talks, workshops and webinars, Elisabeth brings her warmth and wisdom to parents all over the world.

Emily Cherkin

Emily Cherkin, The Screentime Consultant, is a nationally and internationally recognized consultant who has worked with families and schools for over fteen-years. She has been featured in The New York Times, on The Today Show, Good Morning, America, Australia’s “Weekend Today”, Sirius XM Radio, on parenting blogs such as Fatherly.com and ParentMap.org, and she writes regularly for
Medium.

Emily also consults privately with parent clients, facilitates group workshops, and offers school presentations that take a “tech-intentional” approach to screentime challenges. In addition to a fteen-year teaching career, Emily is part of two national working groups for the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood's Children's Screen Time Action Network, a graduate of the Leading Women in Technology's Women in Leadership Program (WILPower), and a Supporting Voice Member for EverySchool.org.

Emily lives, breathes, and struggles with today's screentime challenges as a smartphone owner, a husband who works in the tech industry, and as a mom to a 12-year-old and a 9-
year-old. She is currently working on a parenting book about screentime.

Jessica Leichtweisz

Hope Education Services was founded in 2015 by Jessica Leichtweisz when she discovered that many parents around the world do not have access to the information they require to help their children affected by Autism.
Jessica completed a masters degree in special education from Manhattanville college and did her post graduate studies in applied behavior analysis (ABA) at Kaplan University. Jessica has been working with children with
Autism since 2008. Jessica believes that when you learn about a problem you can do 1 of 3 things.

You can do nothing.
You can complain about it.
You can do something to change it.

Hope Education Services was born to be the solution for you and your family. Here at Hope Education Services we are committed to helping families all around the globe through virtual consultation and learn on demand courses.

We know that the Autism journey can feel scary and lonely at times. We have your back. We are on this journey with you.

Josh Golin

Josh Golin is the Executive Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), the leading U.S. organization committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized, screen-obsessed culture, and the only organization dedicated to ending marketing to children.

CCFC’s advocacy is grounded in the overwhelming evidence that child-targeted marketing – and the excessive screen time it encourages – undermines kids’ healthy 
development.

CCFC organizes campaigns against corporations that target children with harmful marketing and advocates for policies that limit marketers’ access to children. In 2019, CCFC’s advocacy led directly to the FTC’s investigation of YouTube, and the record-setting settlement that forced Google and YouTube to limit data collection and targeted advertising on kid-directed content. CCFC is also the home of the Children’s Screen Time Action Network, and home to Screen-Free Week, an annual celebration where kids, schools, and communities unplug from digital entertainment and spend their extra free time playing, reading, daydreaming, creating, exploring, and connecting with family and friends. Josh started at CCFC as an intern in 2003 and has been with the organization ever since. Prior to his time at CCFC, he worked at Miramax Films and as a first grade teacher.

Josh has appeared on Good Morning America, Today, NPR, and Fox & Friends and is regularly quoted in major publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post. His writings on the commercialization of childhood have appeared in many outlets.

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is an Ivy-League educated psychologist, an internationally renowned speaker, and one of the country’s foremost experts on mental health, addiction, and the impacts of our digital age. A former clinical professor at Stony Brook Medicine in NY, he's currently the CEO and Chief Clinical Over of Maui Recovery in Hawaii and Omega Recovery in Austin, Texas.

Dr. Kardaras is the author of the best-selling "Glow Kids", the seminal book on the clinical, neurological and sociological aspects of Technology Addiction (Smart Phones, Video Games, Social Media, etc.), now translated into 10 languages.

He's also written for TIME Magazine, Scientific American, Psychology Today, Salon, The NY Daily News, and FOX News, and has appeared on ABC's 20/20, Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, FOX & Friends, NPR, Good Day New York and in Esquire, New York Magazine and Vanity Fair. He was also featured on the 2019 A&E TV series “Digital Addiction” and his 2016 NY Post Op Ed “Digital Heroin” went viral with over 6 million views and shares.

Considered a leading expert on young people and digital addiction, he's clinically worked with over 2,000 teens and young adults during the last 20 years and has been active in advocating that screen addiction be recognized as a clinical disorder akin to substance addiction.

Dr. Sarah Domoff

Dr. Domoff is a clinical child psychologist with expertise in problematic media use in children. She directs the Family Health Lab at Central Michigan University (www.sarahdomoff.com) and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research on the health outcomes of screen media use in children has been funded by the NIH. Dr. Domoff also trains clinicians to assess and treat youth with problematic media use (e.g., gaming disorder, social media conflict) at the Center for Children, Families, and Communities. At her clinic, Dr. Domoff delivers interventions to help parents and children reduce excessive and problematic screen media use.

Stacy Bauer

Born and raised in a suburb of Minneapolis, MN, Stacy C. Bauer is a wife, teacher and mother of two. She has been writing since she was a child and loves sharing stories of her kids' antics and making people laugh. Stacy started her own publishing company, Hop Off the Press, LLC, in February of 2020 and enjoys helping aspiring authors realize their dreams. She has self published 5 books in her series so far.

Dr. Tracy Bennet

Dr. Bennett is a screen safety expert who teaches families how to strengthen relationships AND achieve screen sanity. She is the founder and CEO of GetKidsInternetSafe (GKIS) and author of Screen Time in the Mean Time: A Parenting Guide to Get Kids and Teens Internet Safe.

In her work as a clinical psychologist for over 25 years, she sees the impacts of digital injury and how to treat and prevent it.

After being distracted by the loss of her parents, she needed answers for her own kids; shame-free, actionable strategies that work. They weren’t out there. Instead, she found speakers who focused on scare-tactics and extreme no-screen recommendations. Being a mom herself, she knew these approaches led to eye-rolls, conflicts, and a damaged parent-child relationship. Her approach for GKIS is, instead, based on information that is science-based with parenting strategies that are outcome-based and tested with real families. Her CSUCI research and teaching complement her feet-on-the-ground warm and practical real-life skill set. She is currently on Facebook’s Youth Advisory Team, consults with experts in technology and education, and has served as Global Ambassador of TeenSafe.

Her television and radio appearances, keynotes, blog articles, and online parenting programs make a powerful impact on families. When she’s not working, she spends much of her time driving her teenager to get fast food as she tells him how unhealthy fast food is.

Dr. Victoria Dunckley

Victoria Dunckley, MD, is an award-winning integrative child psychiatrist based at the Centre for Life in Los Angeles. She is a nationally recognized expert on the impact of screen-time on the developing brain, and a leading voice regarding screen-time’s influence on misdiagnosis and overprescribing in children. Recently named one of “America’s Top Psychiatrists,” Dr. Dunckley has been featured on such media outlets as Psychology Today, NBC Nightly News, NPR, and Good Morning America. She is the author of Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen Time.