Dr. Stephanie Goloway

Stephanie Goloway, EdD, has been a passionate advocate for play, storytelling and children’s imaginative thinking for over 50 years. She is professor emerita of Early Education and Child Development at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh and author of Happily Ever Resilient: Using Fairy Tales to Nurture Children Through Adversity (Redleaf Press, 2022). Prior to her tenure in higher education, she learned from children and families in a variety of positions, including childcare teacher and director, public school K-1 teacher, early intervention service coordinator, educational supervisor for adjudicated teens, and assistant children’s librarian. A regular guest on early childhood podcasts such as That Early Childhood Nerd, IPA-USA Porch Play Chats, and Child Care Bar and Grill, she now curates a website and writes a newsletter about fairy tales, play, and resilience from her enchanted cottage on the shores of Lake Erie.