Katherine Zinsser

Katherine Zinsser is Professor of Community & Applied Developmental Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. She conducts multi-method research on early childhood settings, systems, and policies and their impact on young children’s emotional development and the adults who care for them. She is the co-developer of the EMOTERS tool (www.emoters.org), an open-access observational assessment of emotion-focused teaching, and the author of No Longer Welcome: The Epidemic of Early Childhood Expulsion (Oxford University Press, 2022). Her commitment to conducting community-engaged action research to end early childhood expulsion and disrupt the preschool-to-prison pipeline was recently recognized when she was named a Policy & Social Engagement fellow by the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. Dr. Zinsser earned her B.A. from Smith College and her Ph.D. from George Mason University.

Contact: kzinsser@uic.edu