Lisa Guernsey
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Lisa Guernsey | |
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 Guernsey at TEDxMidAtlantic 2013. | |
| Born | April 6, 1971 Lebanon, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Occupations | Director of New America's Early Education Initiative, Early Education writer, technology writer, policy analyst, journalist, author |
| Known for | Analysis of Early Education and Technology |
Lisa Guernsey (born April 6, 1971, in Lebanon, New Hampshire[1]) is an American early education researcher, author, and former journalist. She is currently director of the Learning Technologies Project at New America, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization based in Washington, D.C.[2] She is also deputy director of the organization's Education Policy Program.
Guernsey is a former technology and education writer at The New York Times.[2]
She has written for numerous other major publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com, Newsweek and others.[3] She is the author of Screen Time: How Electronic Media – From Baby Videos to Educational Software – Affects Your Young Child, and co-author, with Michael H. Levine, of the forthcoming Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens.[4][5]
In 2012, Guernsey won a gold Eddie magazine award for her article on e-books for the School Library Journal.[2] She was also a 2005 journalism fellow at the University of Maryland in their child and family policy program.[2] Guernsey has also served on various committees during her career, including the Education & Youth Development subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Public Issues for the Ad Council.[2][6]
Guernsey was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, but has lived in Virginia for most of her life. She obtained a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in English/American Studies from the University of Virginia in 1994.[2][7] Guernsey has two daughters, Janelle and Gillian, and they live in Alexandria's Del Ray neighborhood.[2]
