 Over the past several decades, scientists and child development have discovered remarkable insights about how children learn. Research has uncovered just how important the early years of life are, how much they set the stage for humans to reach their full potential and learn how to learn. Yet, that research is often hidden or cloaked in mysterious scientific language, inaccessible to the people who could use it most. The Learning Sciences Exchange was designed to address this problem. Over the past two decades, with support from and in partnership with the Jacobs Foundation, Lisa Guernsey of New America, and Kathy Hirsch-Pasek and Roberta Golenkoth of the International Congress of Infant Studies devised a plan to elevate the science of early learning to be understandable and meaningful to far more members of society. The LSX Fellows program brought together mid-career professionals from four different sectors – science, policy, journalism, and entertainment. The first cohort of LSX Fellows comes from all over North America and Europe – from Southern California, Oregon, Florida, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Vermont, Scotland, Great Britain, Germany, and France. The LSX program allows the sector to leave their disciplinary and sectoral silos and effectively collaborate. The Fellows met several times over the course of two years. They attended large international conferences, and they hug moments to play and learn together, brainstorming new ways of communicating and applying the latest science. We found a way to communicate using digital technology, meeting in person, and also realizing that even though we come from very different fields, we share the same values and also the same big goal of communicating the learning sciences, and so that helps to overcome all these other barriers. I'm hoping to help build up my beat in the social sciences around some child development-related issues, such as writing about mental health issues that show up in early years or socioeconomic achievement gaps and how those carry through later life. My goal as a researcher is to try and impact the lives of developing children, and that's really hard to do when you are trained as a researcher and not necessarily to communicate that information. The 12 Fellows were divided into three groups, and each group had a budget. Their task was to develop a service, prototype, or product that could make research about young children more accessible. New friendships and new professional relationships, and hopefully just the ability to scale and impact a huge initiative. So figuring out how to move not only the public, but also my boss and policy makers in general toward the policies that we need to make for young kids and families. It's more of an understanding of early childhood, what's current in research, how it evolves. Research is always changing, and that's what's so exciting, and so is storytelling. Today, the outcomes of these collaborations are available for all to see. These Fellows have designed innovative ways of using video and storytelling, animations and music, board books and illustrations to bring the science of learning to life. And now LSX has expanded, bringing on 15 new Fellows and adding social impact entrepreneurs to the mix. In two years we'll see the fruits of the collaboration of our new cohort of Fellows. The ultimate goal of LSX is to lift up the critical importance of early learning, setting up the next generation to flourish.