Maryanne Wolf advocates for children and literacy around the world. She directs UCLA’s Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice. The former John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and Director of Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, she authored of over 160 publications and books including: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007); Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain (2001); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (2016); and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (2018). She is a permanent academician in the Pontifical Academy of Science.