Catherine S. Tamis-Lemonda is Professor of Developmental Psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Faculty Affiliate at NYU’s Department of Psychology, and Director of the Play and Language Lab (https://wp.nyu.edu/catherinetamislemonda/). She examines infants’ learning and development in social-cultural context, such as how infants’ vocal productions, gestures, object play, and locomotion elicit contingent responses from caregivers and support learning across domains. Tamis-LeMonda conducts her research across cultural communities in the United States and internationally to identify general principles of learning and unique cultural practices. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, Administration for Children and Families, the LEGO Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Robinhood Foundation. She has 250+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, and is author of the 2022 textbook Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades (Oxford University Press). She has co-edited Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development (2020), the volumes Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues (editions 1, 2, and 3), Handbook of Father Involvement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (editions 1 and 2), and The Development of Social Cognition and Communication. She has held many positions on national and international boards, committees, societies, journals, and grant advisory boards, including serving on the Governing Council for the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), being President of the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), serving as Associate Editor of Infancy and Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and being a Fellow of the American Psychological Society.