Noah Hichenberg has spent the past twelve years as a preschool director, first at JCC Manhattan and now at Adas Israel in Washington, DC, and was previously a teacher in three-year-old classrooms for five years. Noah received his MA in Early Childhood and Childhood Education from Fordham University and earned his Doctorate in Early Childhood at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research and writing highlight the transformative power of a young child’s agency in the face of adult expectations. For his dissertation he spent nine months doing ethnographic research with a two-year-old child throughout their daily life, from which he developed novel and critical insights into how children experience the social construction of early childhood. Noah has hosted regular Coffee Chats for preschool parents for several years as well as written a regular newsletter about preschool, parenting, and community. Noah currently serves as an adjunct professor at the American Jewish University, where he teaches a graduate class on current research trends. He has led and taught at workshops and conferences on a variety of topics. Noah lives in Maryland with his wife and four children. Noah and Shira met as teenagers at Camp Ramah in New England, and both spent a “gap year” studying in Israel.