Roberta Golinkoff

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education, Psychology, and Linguistics at the University of Delaware and runs the Child’s Play, Learning, and Development laboratory. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to developmental science. Funded by federal agencies, she has written 16 books and monographs. Passionate about harnessing psychological science to improve our schools and family lives, she and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (her long standing collaborator) wrote the just-released Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children. Dr. Golinkoff also co-founded the Ultimate Block Party movement to celebrate the science of playful learning, as well as the Urban Thinkscape project. She has appeared on Good Morning America and other radio and television shows, and in print media. She never turns down an opportunity to spread the findings of psychological science to the lay public.