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JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN
Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education, Teachers College and College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-director, National Center for Children and Families
Member, CPRC Steering Committee
Co-leader, Children, Youth, and Families Group
Biography
Dr. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development at Teachers College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She is also the co-director of the National Center for Children and Families. Dr. Brooks-Gunn is a developmental psychologist who studies children, youth, and families over time. She is interested in the family and neighborhood conditions that influence how children and youth thrive or do not and how conditions at different ages influence development. She also does policy work as well as designing and evaluating interventions for children and families (home visiting clinic based programs, early childhood education programs, and after school programs). |