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My AccountREDS welcomes Michaeleen Doucleff
January 27, 2027 from 6:00-7:00pm
Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD, is an award winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and a prominent voice on parenting and child psychology. As a correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk and NPR’s global health and development blog, Doucleff focuses on disease outbreaks, cross-cultural parenting, and children’s health. In 2014, she was part of the team that earned a George Foster Peabody award for their coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. As a science journalist, Doucleff has reported on a broad range of topics, from vaccine hesitancies to how to teach kids to do chores voluntarily. Doucleff was an editor at the journal Cell, where she wrote about the science behind pop culture.
Dopamine Kids is a five-step resource in the age of screens and ultra processed foods for habit remodeling. Merging neuroscience and psychology with practical experience, she shows readers how to weaken the neurological pathways established by devices and utilize dopamine to motivate kids to pursue high-quality activities, which reduce anxiety, improve moods, and diversify interests. Dopamine Kids is the handbook for solving our overdependence on screens and teaches families how to have a healthy relationship with technology and food.
Her first book, Hunt, Gather, Parent, was a New York Times bestseller. Doucleff explores parenting strategies from families in three of the world’s most venerable communities: Mayan families in Mexico, Inuit families above the Arctic Circle, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. She lived with these families and applied their techniques to her daughter with striking results. Doucleff consulted with psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, and sociologists to explain how these strategies impact children. Hunt, Gather, Parent provides practical takeaways that parents can implement, reshapes how they relate to children, and reveals a universal parenting paradigm adapted for American families.
Doucleff has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Caltech, a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in viticulture and enology from the University of California, Davis.
