Jean Ciborowski Fahey

In my early career, I held the position of Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, while assessing children with reading/learning problems at Boston Children’s Hospital. Later, I consulted with the Massachusetts Family Literacy Consortium and the Reach Out and Read pediatric initiative. I taught at Lesley University’s language and literacy graduate program, authored Textbooks and the Students Who Can’t Read Them, and created and produced the film: "Raising Readers." I was honored as a “Mass Literacy Champion,” directed an early literacy program for expectant parents and other adults who live and work with young children, and in 2016, won Toyota’s Teacher of the Year Award. I wrote and published "Make Time for Reading: a story guide for parents of babies and young children," translated to bilingual Spanish and Portuguese. In 2019, I won the $20,000 International Book Challenge Award for top manuscript "I’ll Build You a Bookcase" from the William Penn Foundation and OpenIdeo -- now available in 4 bilingual editions.