Michelle Luna

Michelle Luna is a postdoctoral research associate in the Early Learning Foundations Lab, the CLAD Lab, and the Institute for Educational Initiatives. She received her B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in French from the University of Notre Dame. Afterward, she spent a year in France teaching English at the University of Rennes 2. She obtained her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles where she studied children's word and category learning with the Language and Cognitive Development Lab. Her current work will focus on implementing various shared book reading interventions, leading the preschool section of TutorND, and examining factors at the intersection of language and cognitive development.