Leslie PoncianoLeslie Ponciano is the President/Founder of Hope Education Research Solutions where she provides professional development, program evaluation, and efficacy research services. She is also the Director of Research Opportunities for the California StateUniversity (CSU) Chancellor’s Office where she mentors research and grant proposal development for 23 CSU campuses. Previously, Dr. Ponciano was the Director of Research & Educational Partnerships for Age of Learning, Inc. where she created an efficacy research division to examine how ABCmouse helps children learn. Dr. Ponciano's held faculty and administrative positions in the Early Childhood Education MA program at Loyola Marymount University, in the Child & Family Studies Department at CSU Los Angeles, and in the Applied Developmental Psychology undergraduate minor program at UCLA. Her researcher is in educational technology, foster care, and early childhood development. Dr. Ponciano received a Psychology BA from University of California (UC) Irvine, a Developmental Psychology MA from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education at UC Los Angeles. Read More Read Less