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Allyx Schiavone

CEO of Friends Center | Chair of Child Care for CT Friends Center for Children New Haven, CT

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Althea Wilson

Family Services Coordinator Washtenaw Intermediate School District Ypsilanti, Michigan

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Andrea Pearson

Chief of Program and Impact Educare Learning Network

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Annie Frazer

Montessori Partnerships for Georgia; Ideal Learning Head Start Network

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Becca Smith

Policy Strategist All Our Kin Cambridge, MA

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Brenda Fyfe, Ph.D.

Dean and Professor Emeritus North American Reggio Emilia Alliance St. Louis, MO

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Brian Boyd, Ph.D.

William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in Education University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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Celia Ayala, Ph.D.

Child360, Congressional Pre-K Caucus

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Cynthia D. Jackson

Executive Director Educare Learning Network Chicago

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Davia Brown Franklyn, Ed.D.

Regional Learning Director Vietnam & Thailand International Schools Partnership

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Dawn A. Yazzie

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

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Deborah J. Leong, Ph.D.

President and Cofounder Tools of the Mind

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Denise Monnier

Director of State Advocacy Montessori Public Policy Initiative

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Elena Bodrova, Ph.D.

Co-founder and Tools Knowledge Advisor Tools of the Mind

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Elizabeth Beaven, Ed.D.

Alliance for Public Waldorf Education

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Emily Sharrock, MPA

Associate Vice President, Education Center Bank Street College of Education

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Iheoma Iruka, Ph.D. (Emeritus)

Research Professor, Fellow, & Founding Director The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC

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Jack McCarthy

Founder AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation Washington, D.C.

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Jeffrey A. Beal, Ph.D.

Codirector Center for Early Education Research and Evaluation (CEERE) HighScope Educational Research Foundation

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Jill Claxton

Director of Evaluation HighScope Educational Research Foundation

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Jocelyn Tucker

Assistant Director Foundation for Early Childhood Education Head Start/State Preschool

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Junlei Li

Senior Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Kara Ahmed, Ed.D.

President Educare Network

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Katie Brown, Ph.D.

Director of Professional Learning National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector

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Leonor Moreno Lundholm (Leo)

Director of Education Child-Parent Centers Inc.

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Lily Rosenthal

Bank Street Education Center

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Lisa Roy, Ed.D.

Executive Director Colorado Department of Early Childhood

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Liz Hartline

Director of Workforce Initiatives Bank Street Education Center

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Lynn Turner

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Coordinator Waldorf Early Childhood Association of Northern America (WECAN)

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Marina Rodriguez

Technical Assistance Team, Education Mentor Coach All Our Kin New Haven, CT

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Meggan Gill, M.Ed.

Co-Director Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America Chestnut Ridge, NY

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Milenis Gonzalez

Executive Director of Early Childhood Bank Street Education Center New York City, NY

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Miriam Sutton

Program Director Friends Center for Children New Haven, CT

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Sara Suchman

Executive Director National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS)

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Shannon D. Lockhart, M.A.

Early Childhood Applied Practice Manager HighScope Educational Research Foundation

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Shantel Meek, Ph.D.

Founding Director and Professor of Practice Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University

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Sonia Dominguez

President AVANCE Texas

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Soyoung Park, Ph.D.

Coursework Instructor and Supervised Fieldwork Advisor Bank Street College of Education

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Susan Howard

Co-founder and Coordinator Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN)

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Teresa Granillo, Ph.D., MSW

Chief Executive Officer AVANCE, Inc

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Vyju Kadambi

State Advocacy Associate Montessori Public Policy Initiative (MPPI)

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Wendy Shenk-Evans

Former Executive Director Montessori Public Policy Initiative

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Wendy Waithe Simmons, Ph.D.

State Services Liaison The BUILD Initiative

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Ania Czekaj-Farber

Managing Director/Principal Czekaj Ventures LLC d/b/a Czekaj Artistic Productions

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Cynthia Robinson-Rivers

Managing Partner, Transcend Transcend Washington, DC

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Ellicia Lanier

Founding Executive Director Urban Sprouts Child Development Center University City, Missouri

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Elizabeth Pungello Bruno, Ph.D.

Co-Chair, Trust for Learning; President, Brady Education Foundation Trust for Learning, Brady Education Foundation

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Lucy Y. Recio

Third Bloom Consulting, LLC

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Marianna McCall

Founding Partner & Co-Chair Trust for Learning

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Nora Flood

Thriving Youth Initiative Lead Zephyr Impact

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William A. Mehojah, Jr.

Former Director Office of Indian Education Programs Washington, D. C.

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Barbara Crockett (Emeritus)

Brady Education Foundation

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Alex Johnston, Ph.D. (Emeritus)

Building Impact

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David Nee (Emeritus)

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Joan Lombardi, Ph.D. (Emeritus)

Early Opportunities, LLC

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Libby Doggett, Ph.D. (Emeritus)

Trust for Learning

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Chrisanne Gayl

Chief Strategy & Policy Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Washington, DC

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Jihane Mrad

Director of Thought Leadership Trust for Learning

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Ellen Roche

Chief Media & Philanthropy Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Washington, D.C.

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Nina de Cecco Walsh

Director of Operations & Grants Management Trust for Learning

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Tobi Adejumo, Ph.D.

Director of Movement Building Trust for Learning Bridgewater, MA

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Toscha Blalock

Chief Learning & Evaluation Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Havertown, PA

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