Lisa Guernsey

Lisa Guernsey (born April 6, 1971, in Lebanon, New Hampshire ) 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. 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. 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.

In 2012, Guernsey won a gold Eddie magazine award for her article on e-books for the School Library Journal.

Education and personal life

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. Guernsey has two daughters, Janelle and Gillian, and they live in Alexandria's Del Ray neighborhood.

After she left The New York Times in 2002, she began freelancing for a number of major publications and was a contributor to the book Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning.

Guernsey started at New America in 2009 as a senior policy analyst and became the Director of the Early Education Initiative that same year.

Her latest book, Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens, was published in September 2015 and is co-written with Michael H. Levine of the Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

Books

Guernsey, L. College.Edu: Online Resources for the Cyber-Savvy Student. Octameron Associates, 2010. Guernsey, L. Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five. Basic Books, 2007 Guernsey, L. Screen Time: How Electronic Media – From Baby Videos to Educational Software – Affects Your Young Child. Basic Books, 2012 Guernsey, L. and Levine, M. H. Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens. Wiley/Jossey-Bass, 2015.