Elanna Yalow is CEO of Knowledge Universe Early Learning Programs. She has been a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach. Yalow has published in the Annual Review of Health Promotion and Education, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Educational Researcher, Handbook of Human Intelligence, Contemporary Education Review and Personnel Psychology, among others. She has spoken on issues related to children at numerous international and national conferences, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Education Writers Association, Parenting Magazine's Mom Congress, the Hechinger Institute Seminars on Education and the Media, the World Forum on Early Care and Education and NBC's 2011 Education Nation Summit. Yalow holds a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.