Jill Braunstein is Director of Marketing and Communications at Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development. She is responsible for planning and executing marketing strategy, overseeing a wide variety of written and visual content, public presentations, messaging campaigns, internal and external communications, and building partnerships to advance the work of the Institute.

A skilled and seasoned communicator, Jill brings more than 30 years of non-profit strategic communications to her work. Prior to joining Children and Screens, she served as the inaugural Director of Communications at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), an international membership organization that promotes the use of developmental research to improve human lives. Prior to joining SRCD, she was Director of Communications at the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), a nonpartisan organization made up of the nation’s leading experts dedicated to working across political and ideological lines to advance understanding of programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Unemployment Insurance. Jill also spent seven years with the prestigious Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) on their research and communications teams.  Jill earned an MA in Public Policy and Women’s Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a concentration in Speech Communication, both from the George Washington University.