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The Power of Toys to Change the World: A conversation with Dr. Lisa Williams Dec 22, 2020

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Dr. Lisa Williams is internationally recognized as an academic trailblazer, founder of a multi-million dollar company, and an award winning speaker and author. Dr. Lisa attained unprecedented success by becoming the first female professor to receive a multi-million dollar endowed chair, the first African American professor to earn tenure at Penn State University, and the first African American to receive a doctorate in Logistics from The Ohio State.

At the height of her career, Dr. Lisa did the unthinkable when she left the academic life to blaze a new trail as an entrepreneur. In 2003, she founded the World of Entertainment, Publishing and Inspiration (World of EPI), LLC. EPI is the classic Cinderella story. Dr. Lisa grew the company from negative revenues into a multi-million dollar powerhouse. EPI is now a leading multi-cultural toy manufacturing and design firm with a global supply chain that crisscrosses the world from the US to China and other worldwide destinations. EPI's largest customer, Walmart recently awarded Dr. Lisa the Supplier of the Year Award for her visionary leadership. Working in partnership with Walmart, EPI touches the lives of an entire generation of children through its Positively Perfect Doll Line.

While featured in many magazines for her expertise in business, she is also known for her ability to motivate executives, future leaders and audiences of all sizes.In addition to winning numerous teaching awards from major universities such as Penn State, Ohio State and the University of Arkansas, she has been awarded the Outstanding Female Faculty Member of the Year from Penn State University, designated as an "Amazing Woman" by University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and given the Trailblazer Award by the American Marketing Association PhD. Project.

Parenting Social Media and Screen Savvy Kids (Part 2): A conversation with Dr. Jill Walsh Dec 18, 2020

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In this episode we continue our conversation with Dr. Jill Walsh. In this conversation, we turn to COVID-19 and explore the roles technology and digital media play and will continue to play in our lives. We examine how we as parents can maintain our sanity and the wellbeing of our children and our families in this challenging screen-filled time, as well as the role we can play in addressing the serious structural inequities that the pandemic highlighted.

Our complex relationship with digital technology and social media has only been exacerbated with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year. Technology became our savior, allowing schools to teach, allowing parents to work, and allowing all of us kids and adults to maintain social and familial ties.

Dr. Jill Walsh is a researcher and lecturer at Boston University and an advocate for children. She is the founder of Digital Aged, a consultancy which re-frames the role of technology in the lives of children to promote healthier relationships between them and the adults in their lives. Jill has a BA from Harvard University. a master's in public policy from Brown University and a PhD sociology from Boston University.

Parenting Social Media & Screen Savvy Kids (Part 1): A conversation with Dr. Jill Walsh Dec 10, 2020

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Dr. Jill Walsh is a researcher and lecturer at Boston University and the founder of Digital Aged, a consultancy which re-frames the role of technology in the lives of children to promote healthier relationships between them and the adults in their lives. In this episode, we explore our children's relationship with digital technology and social media and how parents can best guide them, protect them, and help them use these tools to elevate their unique voices and connect to the world in a healthy way.

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