Richard Weissbourd

Richard Weissbourd is a child and family psychologist on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and School of Education...and a dad. He is the author of the book The Parents We Mean to Be. His work focuses on children's social and ethical development, on vulnerability and resilience in childhood and on effective schools and services for children. He has advised on the state and federal level on family policy and has developed several school and community interventions, primarily in Boston and Cambridge. He is a founder of ReadBoston and of WriteBoston, city-wide initiatives, led by Mayor Menino, intended to greatly improve children's reading and writing abilities. He is also a founder of a new school in Dorchester, the Lee Academy, that begins with children at age three. He has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications, and is also the author of The Vulnerable Child, (Addison-Wesley, 1996).