Catherine Elizabeth Snow (born December 14, 1945) is an educational psychologist who has contributed significantly to theories of bilingualism and language acquisition through parent-child interaction. More recently, Snow's research has focused on early childhood literacy, investigating linguistic and social factors that contribute to or detract from literacy. With Brian MacWhinney, Snow founded the CHILDES database, a corpus of children's speech used by numerous language acquisition researchers. Snow is a Professor of Education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education and past president of the American Educational Research Association.
She is also on the advisory board of FFIPP-USA (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-USA), a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, and students, working in for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and just peace. [1]
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