Terri J. Sabol

Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy,

Northwestern University

Terri J. Sabol is an associate professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She directs the Development, Early Education, and Policy (DEEP) Lab and co-directs the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago (EC*REACH). Sabol is a faculty fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and a faculty affiliate with the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis. A developmental psychologist, her research examines how individual and environmental factors contribute to children's healthy development, applying this evidence to strengthen early childhood education programs and policies. Her work has been published in journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and Science. Prior to her academic career, Sabol was a first-grade teacher in Chicago Public Schools through Teach for America. Sabol earned her PhD in applied developmental science from the University of Virginia.