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.
The Team
Jonathan Haidt
Author of The Anxious Generation
Zach Rausch
Chief Researcher and Editor of After Babel
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
Advocate for Childhood Independence
Maria Petrova
Content Strategist
Matt McInerney
Partner, Township
Ravi Iyer
Managing Director, USC Neely Center
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.