Lisa Guernsey

Lisa Guernsey is director of the Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX) and a senior editor and strategic advisor in the Education Policy program at New America. She also leads the 1939 Library Sit-In Project, a New America initiative that started in 2022. Guernsey’s writing and editing sits at the intersection of literacy (including digital and media literacy), equity in education systems (including libraries, schools, and digital environments), and the science of learning. Guernsey led the Teaching, Learning & Tech team at New America from 2014 to 2021, and before that, from 2010 to 2015, she directed New America’s Early Education Initiative (now the Early & Elementary Education Policy program). In 2017, Lisa co-founded and continues to lead the Learning Sciences Exchange (LSX), a problem-solving platform with a fellowship program developed with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek at Temple University, Roberta Golinkoff at the University of Delaware, and the Jacobs Foundation. Before coming to New America, Guernsey was a writer at the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education.