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Joanna Malecka is a Montgomery Township parent, engineer, psychologist, photographer, and founder of Screens With Purpose.

She holds an engineering degree in environmental science from Gdańsk University of Technology and a master’s degree in psychology from Warsaw School of Social Psychology. Her background combines science, psychology, art, and years of work with children and families.

As a parent first, Joanna became concerned about the growing role of screens in everyday classroom learning, especially in the early grades. After seeing how computer-based work could affect her own child’s focus, engagement, and connection to the learning process, she began asking broader questions about how technology is being used in schools — and whether it truly benefits children in an age when AI and technological improvements are making digital tools increasingly simple and intuitive to use.

Through Screens With Purpose, Joanna advocates for balanced, age-appropriate, and intentional technology use in education — one that supports learning without replacing teachers, books, handwriting, paper, discussion, movement, art, and real-world experiences.

Kara Alaimo, PhD is a Professor of Communication and Director of Academic Programs in Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she created the university’s academic programs in social media. 

She has been writing opinion and analysis pieces for CNN about how digital technology is affecting us all since 2016. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls – And How We Can Take It Back,” which explains how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls and what we can do about it, was published in March 2024. 

She is a former spokesperson in the Obama administration and communicator at the United Nations and speaks frequently to educators, students and parents across the country about how to handle kids’ screen use.

Dr. Caroline de Ville is a Belgian family physician, Expert in Orofacial Function, Sleep, and Child Neurodevelopment, IBCLC-certified lactation consultant, research fellow affiliated with SleepClinic (Belgium), and founder of the Institut Au Sein en Douceur, a training organization that has supported and educated more than 10,000 healthcare and perinatal professionals.

For over ten years, she has explored the connections between orofacial myofunctional functions (breathing, sucking, chewing, and swallowing), sleep, neurodevelopment, and overall health. Her work lies at the intersection of preventive medicine, neuroscience, medical anthropology, and child health.

Passionate about uncovering the root causes of chronic disorders, she has a particular interest in the interactions between breastfeeding, restrictive oral tissues (tongue and lip ties), mouth breathing, sleep-disordered breathing, ADHD, dyslexia, craniofacial development, and long-term health outcomes.

She is the author of " Orofacial myofunctional functions: Forgotten Keys to Health and Sleep", published by Ressources Primordiales Publishing (in French), a reference work drawing on more than one thousand scientific publications and offering a new perspective on the links between orofacial myofunctional functions and many modern chronic health conditions.

Based in the United States for more than a decade, Dr. de Ville continues her work in research, education, and public awareness with a strong conviction: the prevention of chronic diseases begins with the earliest functions of life.