Our Experts

Completed interviews:

• Ann Taylor Allen, author/Emeritus Professor German History, University of Louisville
• Clifford Alper, Professor Emeritus of Music Education, Towson University
• Cady Audette, Co-Director, Charlestown Nursery School
• Robert Balfanz, Research Professor, Center for the Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Education
• Thomas F. Banchoff, Geometer/Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Brown University
• Barbara Beatty, Professor of Education, Wellesley College, author Preschool Education in America
• Norman Brosterman, Author of Inventing Kindergarten / Art collector
• Nancy Brown, Associate Professor of ECE, Florida Atlantic Univ.
• Mariah Bruehl, Founder, Playful Learning
• Megan Buhr, Founder, Athenaeum Learning Center
• Scott Bultman, Founder, Froebel USA
• Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Emerita Professor of Education, Lesley University
• Alicia Carroll, Director of STEM Education, East Boston Early Education Center
• Christine Chen, President, Association for Early Childhood Educators (Singapore)
• Juanita Copley, Professor Emerita Education, Instruction & Curriculum, Univ. of Houston
• Anna Craycroft, Artist / Professor of Art
• Kathy Clunis D'Andrea, Teacher, Mission Hill K-8 School
• Eleanor Duckworth, Emerita Professor of Education, Harvard University
• Janet Emmons, Founder, blockspot
• Nkechy Ezeh, Founder, Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative
• Melissa French, Researcher / Special Education teacher, Fall River Public Schools
• Claire Gallagher, Professor of Education, Georgian Court University
• Lella Gandini, Reggio Emilia
• Eugene Geist, Professor of Education, Ohio University
• Kamile Geist, Professor of Music Therapy, Ohio University
• Matthew Gonzales, Deputy Head of School for Academics, EF Academy
• Tiffeni J. Goesel, Froebel educator
• Gerald L. Gutek, Emeritus Professor of Education, Loyola University
• Patricia A. Gutek, Co-author Bringing Montessori to America [2016]
• Bradford Hansen-Smith, Author of The Geometry of Wholemovement
• Blythe Hinitz, Professor of Education, The College of NJ
• William Jeynes, Professor of Education, California State Univ. Long Beach
• Bart Kahr, Professor of Chemistry, NYU
• Brad Kampf, instructor, City of Lakes Waldorf, Minneapolis
• John Kilbourne, Professor of Sports Management, GVSU
• Edgar Klugman, Professor Emeritus of Education, Wheelock College
• Terry W. Knight, Professor of Architecture, MIT
• Sarah Kuhn, Professor of Psychology, UMass Lowell
• Kira LaFosse-Baker, Forest school instructor, Athenaeum Learning Center
• Rachel Larimore, Author/Nature-Based Education Consultant
• Fern Lerner, Design theory researcher
• Diane Levin, Professor of Education, Wheelock College / Author and activist
• John Linn, Professor of Interior Design, High Point University
• Karen Liu, Professor of Education, Indiana State University
• Ellen Lupton, Author / Director of the Graphic Design MFA program at MICA
• Robert McCarter, Professor of Architecture, Washington University
• Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, ECE teacher, Director of Defending Early Years
• Edie Moody, Froebel family descendant
• Peg Oliveira, Executive Director, Gesell Institute of Child Development
• Kelly Garvey Pellagrini, Co-Founder/Co-Director, Charlestown Nursery School
• Mary Jo Pollman, Professor, Metropolitan State Univ./Author of Blocks & Beyond
• Edna Ranck, Early Childhood Consultant, Washington, DC
• John H. Remelius III, Historian, Carondelet Historical Society
• John Reynolds, Professor of Architecture, Miami University, OH
• Mitchel Resnick, Director of the MIT Media Lab
• Patrick Riccards, Director of Media Relations & Strategy, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
• Monica Rook, Kindergarten teacher, Sycamore Valley Academy
• Malke Rosenfeld, Author/Percussive dance teaching artist
• Regina Weilbacher Rosier, Professor Emerita of Education, Urbana University
• Whitney Saganski, Teacher/Pedagogista, Grand Rapids Early Childhood Discovery Center
• Amy Brook Snider, Professor Emerita of Art & Design Education, Pratt Institute
• David T. Sobel, Professor of Education, Antioch Univ. New England
• George Stiny, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, MIT
• Doug Stowe, Artisan/Teacher/Author/Blogger
• William Storrer, Author of The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion
• Cathy Weisman Topal, Professor Emerita of Art Education Smith College
• Ruth Uhlmann, ECE/Infant-Toddler Specialist, Washington, DC
• Tucker Viemeister, Industrial designer
• Helge Wasmuth, Professor of Education, Mercy College / Author of Kindertageseinrichtungen als Bildungseinrichtungen
• Stacey Wellman, Speech/Language Pathologist, Winnetka Public Schools
• Julie Wilson, Founder, Institute for the Future of Learning
• Jane Whinnett, Director, The Froebel Trust, London
• Debora Wisneski, Associate Professor of Education, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• Roberta Wollons, Professor of Education, UMass Boston