Ellen Galinsky

Ellen Galinsky is the President of Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the elected President of the Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN). She also serves as senior research advisor to AASA, the School Superintendent Organization. Between March 2016 and September 2022, she was the Chief Science Officer of the Bezos Family Foundation. Before co-founding FWI, she spent more than two decades at the Bank Street College of Education. Over her career, her research has focused on work-life, children’s development, youth voice, child-care, parent-professional relationship, and parental development.  

Galinsky is the author of Mind in the Making, a best-selling book on early learning that the New York Times called “an iconic parenting manual,” Her book on adolescence, The Breakthrough Years, was published in March 2024 and has been hailed as a “masterpiece,” a “tour de force,” and “a singular contribution to science and society. “She is also the author of 90 books/reports and 360 articles for books, academic journals, magazines, and the Web.   

Other career highlights include serving as the elected President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, being elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, serving as parent expert in the Mister Rogers Talks with Parents series, and receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College as well as the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from WFRN.