Rae Pica has been an early childhood education consultant since 1980 and is internationally known as a speaker, online course creator, and author. She has written 22 books, including "Experiences in Movement and Music," "What If Everybody Understood Child Development?: Straight Talk About Bettering Education and Children’s Lives," and "Spark a Revolution in Early Education: Speaking Up for Ourselves and the Children."

As a consultant, Rae has shared her expertise with such groups as the Sesame Street Research Department, the Head Start Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Gymboree, Nike, Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues, Bright Horizons, and health departments, schools, and resource and referral agencies throughout the country.

She is most proud of her fierce defense of childhood.

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