Heidi Stevens is the Creative Director for Parent Nation, a new initiative at the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health. Prior to joining Parent Nation, Heidi worked at the Chicago Tribune for 23 years as a writer and editor. For the past decade, she wrote a daily column called Balancing Act. She maintains a nationally syndicated column once a week and lives in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood with her husband and two children.

Dana Suskind, MD, is Founder and Co-Director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, Director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, and Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. Her new book, Parent Nation (Penguin/Dutton, April 2022), offers a compelling look at the neuroscience of early childhood development—and how it can guide us toward a more equitable future