Dr. Rebecca Rolland is an international keynote speaker, speech-language pathologist, and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She served as the Founding Module Director of the Writing for the Public Track at Harvard Medical School’s Effective Writing for Health Care Program, where she served as faculty.

She is the author of the forthcoming book The Pre-Internet Mindset: How to Become Fluent in Human (Rodale/Ebury, Penguin Random House), a neuroscience-backed eight-week program to reclaim focus, creativity, and original thought in a digital world, pitched as The Artist’s Way meets Deep Work. She also wrote Rich Talk with Young Children (Brookes Publishing, 2026), a playbook and framework for teachers to engage in rich talk with children ages 2–8. Her first book, The Art of Talking with Children (HarperOne, 2022), has been translated into eleven languages.

She trains clinicians, therapists, and educators internationally–including an 8-week program for clinical professionals in Shanghai–and has delivered keynotes at the Reliance Foundation in India, the Raising Wisconsin’s Children Conference, and venues across Mumbai, Lima, Tokyo, and beyond. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, USA Today, Salon, El País, Psychology Today, The Hechinger Report, and EdWeek. She spent over five years as an Oral and Written Language Specialist at Children’s Hospital Boston.

In fall 2026, she begins a Master’s in Design Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, researching how designed environments shape cognitive capacity. She is also a glassblower, a poet, and the author of two sci-fi novellas.