Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa is an Instructor at the Harvard University Extension School where she teaches The Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education Science. As an educational researcher she serves as the Associate Editor of NPJ Science of Learning. She also is the co-founder of Connections: The Learning Sciences Platform and researches indicators to measure educational quality, learning in the digital age, transdisciplinary thinking, bilingualism and multilingualism, and the general improvement of teacher practices.

She has authored articles for UNESCO and was a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) expert panel to redefine teachers' new pedagogical knowledge in modern times. Her most recent books are Bringing the Neuroscience of Learning to Online Teaching: An Educator’s Handbook (2021); Neuromyths: Debunking False Ideas About the Brain (2019); and The Five Pillars of the Mind: Redesigning Education to Fit the Brain (2019).

Tracey’s current focus is on understanding What Kids Want to Know About Their Own Brains, a book coming out with Columbia University’s Teachers College Press next year. She is also writing a book called ThinkWrite: The Neuroscience of Writing, which explains why writing is the highest form of thinking. Finally, she is co-editing a new Handbook on Brain, Neuroscience and Education, which is a collection of work looking at the future of educational practice.

Tracey has lived and worked professionally in Tokyo, Geneva, Lima, and Boston, and is currently in New York. She works with teachers, schools, governments, and NGOs in 40 different countries.