Andrew directs the Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA and has been the recipient of numerous awards related to his work, from the American Psychological Association's Boyd McCandless Award for Early Career Contribution, to Developmental Psychology, a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award, to a FIRST award from NICHD. He has published extensively on the socio-cultural experience and biobehavioral development during adolescence and young adulthood, with a focus on teenagers from Latin American, Asian, European, and immigrant backgrounds. Andrew is also a former associate editor of the journal Child Development.

Both Allison and Andrew have their PhDs from the University of Michigan. Allison has spent much of her research career focused on understanding and improving the environments where young children develop, at the Columbia University National Center for Children and Families, the UCLA Center for Child Care Quality, and at California State University, Los Angeles. She’s involved with several longitudinal studies of children’s development including the Exploring Children’s Early Learning Settings and the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. She also teaches development every semester at Cal State LA.

Jessica Bayne is a writer, editor, and producer who has been creating videos and media content for college courses for more than twenty years. She has collaborated with leading researchers and educators and led the development of a wide array of groundbreaking products for college courses. Jessica specializes in maximizing student engagement. By connecting students to real world contexts, she enriches the learning process and prepares students for life beyond the classroom. Jessica’s approach is grounded in her own early experience in the field working in nursing homes and teaching preschoolers, as well as her most ambitious project—raising four children.