Alison Bryan, COO Learning Economy Foundation

⭐ Meet the incredible force that is J. Alison Bryant, Ph.D., ⭐ the badass of building with purpose and a true force for innovation and impact. From leading the Nickelodeon Play Labs and then founding PlayScience to shape how companies understand kids’ learning and play, to serving as Chief Research & Impact Officer at Sesame Workshop, Alison has consistently pushed the boundaries of what it means to build with purpose. She’s also led consumer insights at AARP and now brings her ecosystem brilliance as COO at the Learning Economy Foundation—working at the intersection of education, data, and equity. 🚀 A great quote from this interview "With the advent of AI and media in general kids have more many more choices but algorithms have much more power."An academic, entrepreneur, nonprofit exec, media/tech veteran, and mom of two and stepmom of three, she’s an expert in the science of play and education, translating complexity into clarity, consumer behavior into action, and ideas into scale that truly benefit all.She doesn’t just ask “what’s next?”—she builds it.