Nava R. Silton, Ph.D. is a Developmental Psychologist and a full Psychology Professor at Marymount Manhattan College. Silton received her B.S. at Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at Fordham University. She has worked at Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop and has consulted for Disney, Netflix, Apple, Blue’s Clues & You, 9Story Media Group and The Autism Seaver Center. She also serves as a Developmental Psychologist for two elementary schools. She has appeared over 200 times on Fox 5 News as a Parenting and Developmental Expert, and has appeared on Good Day New York, Good Day Street Talk and NBC. Silton has written over 36 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 20 chapters, book reviews and encyclopedia entries and has edited nine full textbooks, with a tenth on the way. Silton created the award-winning Realabilities Educational Comic Book Series and The Realabilities Mental Health Edition, which have been used in over 30 schools across the U.S. She also created Addy & Uno, The First Family Musical about Disabilities, Bullying and Kindness, which was nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Award and ran Off-Broadway for over 18 months at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in Manhattan. She has a variety of children’s TV shows with The Jim Henson Company, LeVar Burton Entertainment, Neptune Studios and Two Shakes Entertainment. In addition, Nava recently penned four feature screenplays, Pure, The Prof, Jackpot and Toycoon. All four screenplays have already achieved significant recognition (Finalist, Semifinalist and Quarterfinalist designations) in over twenty screenplay contests. Most recently, Silton was identified as one of the Top 50 screenwriters on the ISA Fellowship slate. 

Silton has also applied her vast knowledge and expertise in Child Development, Psychology and Education to her parenting podcast, A Cup of Java with Dr. Nava and to her new, innovative gaming company, Dr. Nava Games (www.drnavagames.com). Dr. Nava Games boasts four games with two on the way. Bashert is a card game with exciting questions to build connections among adults. The One of A Kind Game teaches kindness and socio-emotional development via a thrilling pirate adventure. Unbox Your Creativity stimulates your creativity and divergent thinking through imagination and design and Grit Lock challenges its players to harness their grit and resilience to traverse obstacles and build complex structures. Finally, Executive Station will teach critical executive functioning skills via an exhilarating train adventure and The Realabilities Video Game will take Addy, Uno and their friends with diverse disabilities on an epic school trip adventure to find their strengths and their class!

Silton is married to Dr. Ariel Brandwein and has seven children; three boys and four girls.