Lisa Guernsey is the Director of the
Early Education Initiative at
New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank and incubator for explanatory and investigative journalism on pressing policy issues. She edits the
Early Ed Watch blog which provides original reporting and commentary on policy and research news about children's learning from birth to age 8. Lisa has been writing about education for nearly 15 years as a staff writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education until 1999 and the New York Times until 2002. She has written articles on the intersections of social science, education and technology for many national publications over the past several years, including her former employers and The Washington Post. In 2001 she was a media fellow at Duke University’s Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and in 2005 she was a journalism fellow in the Child and Family Policy Program at the University of Maryland. Her most recent book is Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age 5, published by Basic Books in 2007. She lives with her husband and two young daughters in Alexandria, Va.