Mary-Alice Moore, President, Highlights for Children has spent her career building experiences that help children become their best selves. Before joining Highlights in 2009, she worked across children's publishing at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, HarperCollins and Scholastic. But three earlier chapters shaped her most. She ran a children's bookstore, where she saw firsthand how the right book at the right moment could light up a child's imagination and send their curiosity in a dozen new directions. She led a childcare center serving children from infancy through school age. And she raised three sons of her own. All three experiences fed her belief that the earliest years are when curiosity takes root, confidence begins to grow, and the habits of heart that last a lifetime are formed. Mary-Alice is also the author of The Wheels on the School Bus, a picture book that grew from following her own son's fascination with school buses and imagining together what might happen if one picked up all the teachers instead of the kids. 

She is a graduate of Georgetown University, where she studied Spanish and Linguistics, and lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, with her husband and three sons.