Aletha C. Huston is the Associate Director, Population Research Center and Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A from the University of Minnesota, and a B.A., from Stanford University. Dr. Huston specializes in understanding the effects of poverty on children and the impact that early intervention programs have on these effects. She is a Principal Investigator in the New Hope Project, and NICHD-funded study of the effects on children and families of parents’ participation in a work-based program to reduce poverty. She is also a member of the MacArthur Network on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood and an Investigator for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, a longitudinal study following a national sample of children from birth through middle childhood. Dr. Huston is Co-Director of the Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television & Children. She is past President of the Division of Developmental Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She has won numerous research awards, including the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology and the Nicholas Hobbs award for Research and Child Advocacy, both from the American Psychological Association.