An award-winning journalist, speaker, and author specializing in learning, technology, and parenting.
Learning requires courage. I show parents and young people how to be brave. I delve into research, talk to people in different sectors and geographies, and synthesize ideas across silos. I read the studies so you don’t have to. My goal is to simplify learning for parents, teens, educators and companies.
My Substack is called How to Be Brave. Not because I am brave—I have my moments—but because I aspire to be: as a mother and a thinker, as a friend and as a writer.
How I’ve spent my years
I have been a journalist for more than 25 years, winning some big awards along the way. I covered finance at Institutional Investor magazine, the New York Post and the New York Times for a decade.
I left the world of money and markets to dive into the world of learning, first at the Times and then at Quartz, a digital media start up where I pioneered "obsessions" or beats on the Science of Learning, the Art of Parenting, the Future of Schools, and Rewiring Childhood, a two-year project funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation to examine the neuroscience of early childhood.
My final obsession was Being Human, which was focused on how we build lives of meaning and purpose among the chaos around us. In 2020 I launched the Learnit podcast and penned a newsletter for 80,000 global education leaders (Learnit is now part of BETT).
Since 2022 I have been interviewing teens and families about their experience of school and researching the science of student engagement. From 2022-2024 I was a Learning Sciences Exchange fellow at the New America Foundation. I continue to write for outlets including The New York Times, TIME and The Atlantic.
