Kiku Adatto is an award-winning teacher at Harvard University and an author, scholar and commentator on art, popular culture, and civic life. She has taught and written about art, literature, media, politics and the changing culture of childhood.

Her book, Picture Perfect: Life in the Age of the Photo Op, explores the use and abuse of images in photography, television, movies, and on the Internet. It has been published in multiple languages. Her past writings on the media helped spark a national debate on presidential campaign coverage in the United States. Adatto’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Time Magazine, Huffington Post, and she has appeared on public television and public radio stations in the United States and abroad.

Along with her husband Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel, she is leading an international storytelling and civic education project for children, the Babayan Story Project, which is dedicated to sparking children’s artistic and moral imaginations and building stronger bonds between home and school.