Rebecca Rolland is a writer, speaker, speech pathologist, and creative designer interested in how humans interact with each other and the environment. She has taught for years at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School and is now studying design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Her Rich Talk framework was the subject of her popular book The Art of Talking with Children (HarperOne), available in 11 languages, as well as a playbook for educators, Rich Talk with Young Children.

Her forthcoming book, The Pre-Internet Mindset (Random House), explores eight key capacities that our phones can’t replace, and how we can rebuild our focus, creativity, and feeling of being alive in the world and with others.

Her creative output includes four books of poems and two sci-fi books for new adult readers. She has a TEDx talk forthcoming and serves as a frequent keynote speaker nationally and internationally, including recently at the Reliance Foundation in Mumbai, India. She has two children and lives in Boston, where her interests include glassblowing and open water swimming.