New editor joins staff of The Learning Professional Suzanne Bouffard has joined Learning Forward as associate director of publications. Her primary responsibility will be to serve as the editor of The Learning Professional. Bouffard has written about education and child development for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, U.S. News and World Report, Parents, and The Harvard Education Letter. Her most recent book is The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children (Avery, 2017). Her first book, Ready, Willing, and Able (with Mandy Savitz-Romer, Harvard Education Press, 2012) covered challenges and strategies for first generation college-bound youth. Bouffard has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Duke University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. She was a writer and researcher