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Lisa Guernsey is the Senior Director of Birth-12th Grade Policy at ¹ú²úÊÓƵ. She is the Co-Founder and Director of the project and also leads the and the .

Guernsey’s work sits at the intersection of literacy (including digital and media literacy), equity in education systems (including libraries, schools, and digital environments), and the science of learning. She led the Teaching, Learning & Tech team at ¹ú²úÊÓƵ from 2014 to 2021, and from 2010 to 2015 she directed ¹ú²úÊÓƵ’s Early Education Initiative (now the Early & Elementary Education Policy program). In late 2017, Guernsey launched the Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX) with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek at Temple University and Roberta Golinkoff at the University of Delaware.

Before coming to ¹ú²úÊÓƵ, Guernsey was a staff writer at The New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She has contributed to national publications including Scientific American, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, Slate, ZERO TO THREE, and USA TODAY.

Guernsey is co-author, with Michael H. Levine, of (Jossey-Bass, 2015) and author of Screen Time: How Electronic Media—From Baby Videos to Educational Software—Affects Your Young Child (Basic Books, 2012).Ìý

Guernsey has contributed to multiple books on technology and learning, including A Librarians’ Guide to Engaging Families in Learning (Libraries Unlimited, 2021), Exploring Key Issues in Early Childhood and Technology (Routledge, 2019), Family Engagement in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2016), and Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years (Routledge, 2014).

Guernsey has served on several national advisory committees on early education, including the Institute of Medicine’s committee that led to the seminal 2015 Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8: A Unifying Foundation; the FIRST LEGO League advisory board; the advisory board for the National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement; and the CPB-PBS Ready to Learn advisory board. She is currently on the University of Michigan Learning Sciences advisory board, the advisory board for the Maryland Center for Media Literacy and Education, the board for the Pyramid Model Consortium, and the board for ACT for Alexandria, a community foundation in Virginia.

Guernsey holds a master’s degree in English/American studies and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia. She lives in Alexandria and has two daughters. She is on , , and .