Management Team

Matthew E. Melmed, J.D.
Executive Director (bio)

Tracy Crudup
Human Resources Director (bio)

Tahra M. Goraya, MA
Director, Western Office (bio)

Erica Lurie-Hurvitz, J.D.
Director of Public Policy  (bio)

Janice Im
Interim Chief Program Officer (bio)

Michelle Payne
Chief Development Officer (bio)

Laura Shiflett
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer (bio)

Board 

Kathryn E. Barnard, R.N., Ph.D.
University of Washington (bio)
Seattle, WA

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
Children's Hospital Medical Center (bio)
Boston, MA

Maria D. Chavez, Ed.D. (bio)
Albuquerque, NM

Helen Egger, M.D.
Duke University Medical Center (bio)
Durham, NC

Robert N. Emde, M.D.
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (bio)
Denver, CO

Linda Gilkerson, Ph.D.
Erikson Institute (bio)
Chicago, IL 

J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D.
Center for Child and Family Studies, WestEd (bio)
Sausalito, CA

Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D.
San Francisco General Hospital (bio)
San Francisco, CA

John M. Love, Ph.D. (bio)

Ann Pleshette Murphy (Vice President)
Parenting Contributor, ABC TV's Good Morning America (bio)
New York City, NY

Brian A. Napack (Secretary/Treasurer)
Macmillan (bio)
New York, NY

Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (bio) 
New Orleans, LA

Jeree H. Pawl, Ph.D.
Mill Valley, CA  (bio)

Cheryl Polk, Ph.D. (President)
Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund (bio)
San Francisco, CA

Rizwan Shah, M.D.
Child Abuse Program at Blank Children’s Hospital (bio)
Des Moines, IA.

Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, L.C.S.W., Ph.D.
Institute for Infants, Children & Families  (bio)
Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
New York City, NY

Paul Spicer, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma (bio)

Lynn G. Straus, M.S.
Mamaroneck, NY  (bio)

Mindy Stein
Tikun Olam Foundation
Los Angeles, CA (bio)

Ross Thompson, Ph.D.
University of California (bio)
Davis, CA

Ginger Ward  (bio)

 Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Silver Spring, MD (bio)

Harry H. Wright, M.D., M.B.A.
University of South Carolina School of Medicine (bio)
Columbia, SC

Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., M.D.
Tulane University (bio)
New Orleans, LA

 

Board Emeritus

Stanley Greenspan, M.D.
George Washington University School of Medicine (bio)
Washington, DC

Samuel J. Meisels, Ed.D.
Erikson Institute (bio)
Chicago, IL

Kyle Pruett, M.D.
Yale Child Study Center (bio)
New Haven, CT

Arnold J. Sameroff, Ph.D.
University of Michigan (bio)
Ann Arbor, MI

Marilyn M. Segal, Ph.D.
Nova Southeastern University (bio)
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D.
Harvard University (bio)
Cambridge, MA

Edward Zigler, Ph.D.
Yale Child Study Center (bio)
New Haven, CT

ZERO TO THREE Council

Richard Atlas
Atlas Family Foundation
Los Angeles, CA

Michael N. Cachine, Sr.
McGowan Fund
Washington, DC

Sydney McNiff Ferguson
Government Relations Consultant
Washington, DC

Lela Sarnat, Ph.D. 
Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco,
the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma counties
Portola Valley, CA