The following are national leading experts on boys issues. Advice, opinions, suggestions, and articles written by these experts are those of the experts. This list is for informational purposes only
Alison Carr-Chellman
Dr. Alison A. Carr-Chellman is professor of Instructional Systems and Head of Learning and Performance Systems at Pennsylvania State University. Her TED Talk, “Gaming to Re-engage Boys in Learning,” brought international attention to the mismatch between boy culture and school culture and ways that digital learning media can bring boys back to productive educational engagement. She is widely published on topics related to school change and innovation.”
Dr. Warren Farrell
www.warrenfarrell.com
Dr. Farrell has written books in 15 languages, including Why Men Are The Way They Are, and Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say (on couples’ communication). His Father and Child Reunion documents fathers’ importance; Why Men Earn More facilitates women’s careers; and The Myth of Male Power exposes male powerlessness. His forthcoming Reinventing Boyhood is with John Gray. Dr. Farrell has two daughters. He lives with his wife in Mill Valley, California.
David C. Geary, Ph.D.
Dr. David C. Geary received a B.S. in psychology from Santa Clara University, an M.S. in child clinical/school psychology from California State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of California, Riverside. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1986, he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at El Paso and the University of Missouri, first at the Rolla campus and then in Columbia. Dr. Geary served as chair of his department from 2002 to 2005 and as the University of Missouri”s Middlebush Professor of Psychological Sciences from 2000 to 2003.
He is currently a Curators” and Thomas Jefferson Professor. He has published nearly 200 articles, commentaries, and chapters across a wide range of topics, including three sole-authored books; Children’s mathematical development, Male, female: The evolution of human sex differences (now in second edition, 2010), and The origin of mind: Evolution of brain, cognition, and general
Michael Gurian
www.gurianinstitute.com
Michael Gurian is a family therapist, child advocate, and the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including The Minds of Boys, Boys and Girls Learn Differently! and The Wonder of Girls. Over the last twenty years, he has advocated relentlessly for boy-friendly research in the public dialogue. The Gurian Institute has provided teacher effectiveness training to over fifty thousand teachers in two thousands schools and districts.
Norman Johnson
Norman Johnson, Ph.D., Vice President at ALISIAS, a public policy relations firm, has held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Florida A&M University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a life membership in the NAACP and the 100 Black Men of Atlanta. He is the past president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration and the Atlanta School Board.
Tom Mortenson
www.boysproject.net/statistics.html
Thomas Mortenson is a Senior Scholar at The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington, DC., and an independent higher education policy analyst living in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Tom’s policy research focuses on opportunity for postsecondary education and training and the ways public policy fosters or impedes access to that opportunity. He has special concern for populations that are under-represented in higher education. He has been employed in policy research and budget analysis roles for the University of Minnesota, Illinois Board of Higher Education, Illinois State Scholarship Commission, and the American College Testing Program.
Currently Tom is editor and publisher of Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY, a monthly research letter devoted to analysis and reporting on the demographics, sociology, history, politics and economics of educational opportunity after high school. He provides consulting services on higher educational opportunity policy to state and national organizations, and makes presentations on educational opportunity throughout the country and in Europe.
William S. Pollack
Dr. William S. Pollack is Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Centers for Men and Young Men and President of the Real Boys® Educational Institute. Pollack served as a consultant to two U.S. Presidential administrations advising on freeing boys’ from the chains of youth violence and on adult males’ mentoring roles in emotionally connected/safe neighborhoods and schools. His work on boys and men’s health and mental health has achieved international recognition.
Leonard Sax
www.nasspe.org
Leonard Sax MD PhD earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at MIT; he then earned a PhD in psychology, and an MD, both at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing a three-year residency in family practice, Dr. Sax practiced in Maryland for 19 years (1989 – 2008). He is the founder of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education and now devotes much of his time to visiting schools and leading workshops.
Christina Hoff Sommers
Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Before joining AEI she was a professor of philosophy at Clark University where she specialized in moral theory. Her academic articles have appeared in publications such as The Journal of Philosophyand The New England Journal of Medicine, Sommers is the author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys—the latter was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year.”
Michael Thompson
Dr. Michael Thompson is a psychologist, school consultant and the bestselling author or co-author of eight books including Raising Cain:Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children, and It’s a Boy. He co-wrote and narrated a two-hour PBS documentary entitled Raising Cain: Exploring the Inner Lives of America’s Boys. He has spoken to or consulted at over one thousand public, independent and international schools.