Expert and Thought Leader: Alice Ray

Areas of expertise:

Youth violence prevention
Child abuse prevention
Behavior interventions
Social-emotional learning
Technology, learning and design
Social entrepreneurship

Track record of leadership:

Alice Ray has been a leader in prevention, youth development and social entrepreneurship for more than two decades. She has produced print curricula, videos, software, and authored a book on issues related to the prevention of social problems for our youth, and our capacity as a society to prevent the next generation from becoming perpetrators of violence and social injury.

She is widely considered the intellectual force behind the successful re-framing of sexual abuse prevention in the early 1980s. During her tenure as Director of the nonprofit Committee for Children in Seattle, she also conceived and oversaw the development of a widely heralded and clinically validated print violence prevention curriculum called Second Step, now used in thousands of U.S. classrooms. Seeing the limitations of print curricula, ten years ago she turned to technology to create the next generation tools to prevent social injury.

She now works at the convergence of five fields: comprehensive prevention, positive youth development, learning theory, technology design, and customer-focused commercial business.

She has received more than sixty awards for her social leadership, social entrepreneurship, artistic excellence, and software design.  She has given keynote speeches in fifteen states, served as Principal Investigator on research projects funded by the U.S. Departments of Education and Health & Human Services, and was appointed by President Clinton to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.

Her work has been featured in major national print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,Teen Magazine, The Today Show, Dateline NBC, ABC Nightline, CNN, and MTV, as well as in national education publications, including Edutopia. Technology & Learning Magazine, and Teaching K-8.

See Alice Ray’s full resume (pdf)

Recent events:

Alice Ray was a featured speaker at the 2006 Association of Alaska School Boards Annual Conference in November. Her talk was entitled: “Technology & Social-Emotional Intelligence in Children.”

Alice Ray is available for interviews and speaking engagements. For more information, please contact Kerry Pifer at 415-227-1669 x301.