Julie Paturzo
Senior Program Officer Spring Point Partners Philadelphia, PA
Expert
Educator Development
Equity
Movement Building
Philanthropy
Research
- Title
- Chief Media & Philanthropy Officer | Co-Director
- Organization
- Trust for Learning
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Contact
- [email protected]
Ellen served as executive director of Trust for Learning from 2018 to 2022, and now co-leads the philanthropic partnership with Toscha Blalock & Chrisanne Gayl.
Prior to joining the Trust, Ellen taught English and music to children from Pre-K to high school and developed issue-based storytelling campaigns as a consultant. While earning her Master’s of Education at Harvard University, she studied the history of progressive education models in the U.S. and antiracist pedagogy. At the Trust, she works closely with our board and funders to steward the organization’s development and aims to incorporate antiracism and inclusion in all areas of our work. Ellen currently serves as co-chair of the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative’s racial equity working group and is a member of the newly formed Council on Addressing Racism in the Early Years. She works to connect developmental science with the highest ideals of our democracy, and facilitated 2024’s Infant Nation webinar series in the lead up to the election.
As a developmental affective neuroscientist, she is focused on bringing antiracist practice into research and led the development of Trust for Learning’s evidence brief. She spent two years working in the Early Learning Project lab at Georgetown University, and is now examining the relationship between adversity, language and socio-emotional development in preschoolers in University of Maryland’s LEAD Lab. Her latest paper explores the evidence behind caregiver-child brain synchrony as a potential mechanism of early development.
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