Sydney Gurewitz ClemensSydney Gurewitz Clemens has been devoted to child advocacy, children's rights and children of prisoners for more than half a century. She is an internationally known keynote speaker, author, and teacher of adults and children and a former NAEYC editoial board member. Her second book, Pay Attention to the Children, was about the work of Sylvia Ashton-Warner, and how the New Zealand teacher's work influenced her own. In 2005 she was honored by the Board of Supervisors of the City of San Francisco for her contributions to the field of early childhood edu-cation, and to the San Francisco community. She has been a civil rights worker, studying non-violence in 1960 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1962, and was a delegate to the 1971 White House Conference on the Family, which led to the Americans with Disabilities Act. She is especially interested in the work of the educators of Reggio Emilia, the subject of her 2017 book, Seeing Young Children with New Eyes: What We've Learned from Reggio Emilia about Children and Ourselves. Read More Read Less