About Us
Mission Statement
To motivate and empower teens, parents, educators, policymakers, and tech industry leaders to act collectively to free children and adolescents from a childhood spent largely alone on screens, and instead promote independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world.


Jonathan Haidt
Author of The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jon received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. Alongside, The Anxious Generation, Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and of the New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012) and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED talks. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Tech and Society Lab

Zach Rausch
Chief Researcher and Editor of After Babel

Alec McClean
Research Associate

Emma Park
Research Associate

Jakey Lebwohl
Research Intern

Jason Lu
Research Associate

Ravi Iyer
Research Partner
The Anxious Generation Movement

Alexa Arnold
Chief of Staff and Managing Director

Catherine Price
Author and Expert on Digital Well-Being

Dave Cicirelli
Creative Director

Deb Eschmeyer
Founder and Partner, Original Strategies

Elle O’Brien
Senior Associate, Original Strategies

Freya India
Writer

Joanna Rosholm
Founder and Partner, Original Strategies

Laura Miller
Campaign Director

Leeah Derenoncourt
Coordinator, Original Strategies

Lenore Skenazy
Author of Free-Range Kids and President of Let Grow

Maria Petrova
Content Strategist

Matt McInerney
Partner, Township

Organizations
Let Grow
We are working with many aligned organizations to roll-back the phone based childhood and restore the play-based childhood. We have a special relationship with Let Grow, which is making it easy, normal and legal to give kids the independence they need to grow into capable, confident, and happy adults.
Aligned Organizations

Organizations working to end the phone-based childhood and restore the play-based childhood.