Elliot Haspel is a nationally-recognized child and family policy expert and commentator, with specialties in child care as well as the linkage between early childhood and climate change. He is the author of Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It (Black Rose, 2019) and the forthcoming Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care for All (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Elliot Haspel is a nationally-recognized child and family policy expert and commentator, with specialties in child care as well as the linkage between early childhood and climate change. He is the author of Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It (Black Rose, 2019) and the forthcoming Raising a Nation: 10 Reasons Every American Has a Stake in Child Care for All (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Elliot has appeared on television as an analyst, including on The PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff, and his writings have appeared in a wide variety of top publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Elliot is regularly sought out by journalists, and has been quoted in such mediums as NPR, Bloomberg, and TIME Magazine. He also writes a monthly column for the web magazine Early Learning Nation. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous early childhood events and has been asked to both join and moderate major panel discussions. In 2021, Elliot testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the care economy.

Elliot serves as a Senior Fellow at the family policy think tank Capita, and is also pursuing his Ph.D. in Early Childhood Policy at the University of Colorado-Denver. He serves on the Board of Directors of the advocacy nonprofit Chamber of Mothers, and is a Fellow of the U.S. chapter of the Royal Society of Arts. Elliot lives in Denver with his wife and daughters.