Dr. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and the director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED). She is also a senior fellow at the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child and is a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute. She is a developmental and community psychologist who studies the social, cognitive, and language development of racially and linguistically marginalized children within various ecological contexts, such as parent-child interactions, early childhood care and education, professional development interventions for the early childhood workforce, and related state and federal policies designed to promote the positive development and health of young children.