About Us

Dr. Burgert is Kansas-City based pediatrician phenom and a National Spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the AAP’s Council of Communications and Media.

Her work with patients has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Parents magazine. She has also been highlighted on NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, and other local news programs. She is a regular contributor to NBC News Parent Tool Kit, US News and World Report and her local NPR affiliate.

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Chris created ProtectYoungEyes.com as a way to equip and encourage parents and students to use technology responsibly. Chris has expertise in social media usage, device parental controls, and strategies that encourage digital trust between parents and kids.

PYE’s content helps families around the world, with a team that has performed over 1,000 presentations at schools, churches, and nonprofits. When not practicing his internet safety tips on his four kids he is regularly featured on the news, radio, podcasts, and most recently on Capitol Hill. His July 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee testimony helped shape legislation related to online child exploitation.

With a combined 30 years of experience improving education in Northern Virginia, Joe Clement and Matt Miles are passionate about supporting and advocating for students’ best interests. They have taught government, psychology, political science and world history. They are coaches and mentors who care deeply about students and their education.

Matt and Joe also are co-authors of Screen Schooled. On a mission to educate and empower parents, they provide many real-world examples and cite multiple studies showing how technology use has created a wide range of cognitive and social challenges and deficits in our young people.

Brooke is the Executive Director and founder of Wait Until 8th. She lives in Austin with her husband Michael and three daughters. Brooke has a Master's in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University and B.A. in Political Science and Communications from the University of Miami.

Brooke believes all children should experience a childhood filled with outside play, long afternoons with books and puzzles and time without the presence of a screen. After many conversations with friends about the smartphone problem, she wanted to make a change in her community and hopefully beyond.

Dr. Leonard Sax is an expert in the field of child and adolescent development with 30+ years of experience as both a physician (M.D.) and as a Ph.D. psychologist. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the age of 19, and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his dual degress.

He is a New York Times bestselling author and speaker, having led workshops at more than 460 venues across the United States and around the world. His books include Boys Adrift, Girls on the Edge, Why Gender Matters, and The Collapse of Parenting.

Emily is the founder of The Screentime Consultant, LLC, and she speaks to schools, families, and students around the country on issues related to learning, parenting, and teaching.

Emily holds a Master’s Degree in Education Curriculum and Instruction from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Based in Seattle, Emily has been featured in The New York Times, on The Today Show, Good Morning, America, Australia’s “Weekend Today”, Sirius XM Radio, on parenting blogs such as Fatherly.com and ParentMap.org, as well as in local news on both radio and television.

Dr. Owenz is the author of the book, Spoiled Right: Delaying Screens and Giving Children What They Really Need, which applies goal science to incidentally reduce screen time by providing a science-backed, developmentally appropriate system for emphasizing alternative activities of childhood.

Meghan is also a parent and university professor. Her doctorate degree is in Counseling Psychology from the University of Miami. She is the co-founder and writer of the popular parenting website, Screen-Free Parenting. She is a regular speaker on the topic of children's screen time and uses her expertise to advocate for science-backed changes to policies and practices that affect children's well-being.

Jessica is an Assistant Professor at Yale University's Child Study Center, where she manages the Viola W. Bernard Fund for Innovation in Mental Health Care, focused on promoting health equity and access for vulnerable children and their families. She also serves as the Director of Professional Standards for the School of Medicine.

Jessica began her career as a therapist specializing in trauma and anxiety before transitioning to higher education ten years ago. She previously served as the Assistant Dean of Students at Washington University in St. Louis, where she created and managed a program for students of concern. Jessica lives in southern Connecticut with her husband and two young children.ere

Dr. Gibler is a practicing child/adolescent and adult psychiatrist in Blue Ash, Ohio. She has been in private practice since 2015 and previously was an attending physician at the Lindner Center of HOPE in Mason, Ohio. Dr. Gibler graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed her adult psychiatry residency and child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jean is the Director of the Children’s Screen Time Action Network, a coalition of practitioners, educators, advocates, and parents working to reduce children’s excessive use of digital devices and restore a developmentally healthy childhood. The Network was founded by parent organization Fairplay in 2017.

Author of Kids Under Fire, she has been giving Kids Media Diet workshops, writing and speaking about children’s screen use since 2002. She holds a Masters’ in Education and a Certificate in Parenting Education from the Wheelock School of Education at Boston University. Previously, Jean worked as a writer and communications consultant both in high tech and nonprofit settings. She joined Fairplay in 2016, inspired by the work of founder Susan Linn and the organization’s capacity to prevent commercialism from usurping children’s character, habits, and creativity.

Andrea Davis is a former secondary ed teacher turned screen-time-navigator. She is the founder of Better Screen Time where she shares family-tested ideas from the (tech) trenches as a mom of five. She is on a mission to help parents worry less about tech, and connect more with their kids. Andrea is the author of Creating a Tech-Healthy Family. Andrea and her husband, Tyler, live in beautiful Hood River, Oregon where they love spending time outdoors as a family.