Dr. Elisabeth McClure is a former research fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop (2015-2017), a consultant for New America, and the lead author on the 2017 report STEM Starts Early: Grounding science, technology, engineering, and math education in early childhood. Dr. McClure received her PhD from Georgetown University, where she was trained in developmental psychology with a focus on public policy. She conducts research on families, young children, and digital media, and her research on how babies and toddlers use video chat has been featured in The Atlantic, Science News, and on NPR, and has been used to inform policies for the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Department of Education.