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Board of Directors

Our ZERO TO THREE leadership team takes a unique multidisciplinary approach to child development.

They bring together the perspectives of many fields, and their expertise is rooted in all domains of development—social, emotional, intellectual, language, and physical. The ZERO TO THREE management team and Board of Directors work together to promote children’s overall health and well-being in the context of family and culture.

Board Officers

Walter S. Gilliam

President

Tammy Mann

Vice President

Eugene P. Stein

Treasurer

Michael R. Olenick

Chair, Committee on the Board

Brenda Jones Harden

Immediate Past President

Matthew Melmed

Executive Director

Board of Directors

Lee Beers

Chief Medical Officer, American Academy of Pediatrics

Renée Boynton-Jarrett

Pediatrician, Social Epidemiologist and Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine<br> Founding Director, Vital Village Networks

Abel Covarrubias

Founder and CEO, Aprendamos Intervention Team

Felicia DeHaney

Director of Program and Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Phil Fisher

Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University​

Andrew Garner

Clinical Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Chandra Ghosh Ippen

Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program, University of California, San Francisco

Mary Margaret Gleason

Chief of Early Childhood, Training & Education, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children's Hospital

Aimee Hilado

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Professor of Psychology, Temple University and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Jon Korfmacher

Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago

Michelle Meyercord

VP of Programs, Dalio Philanthropies

Catherine Monk

Professor, Medical Psychology, Columbia University

Joy Osofsky

Paul J. Ramsay Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans

Adrián A. Pedroza

National Executive Director, <br>AP-OD

Helen H. Raikes

Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Michelle Sarche

Senior Director of Tribal Research, Policy, and Partnerships, Buffet Early Childhood Institute at the University of Nebraska

Kandace Thomas

Inaugural Executive Director of First 8 Memphis, Memphis and Shelby County

Barbara Thompson

Former Director, Office of Military Family Readiness Policy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy

Ross Thompson

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of California, Davis

H. Marcel Wright

Vice President - Care Delivery, Forefront Telecare

Board Emeritus​

Alicia F. Lieberman

Director, Child Trauma Research Program, San Francisco General Hospital

Ann Pleshette Murphy

Parenting Educator and Counselor

Arnold J. Sameroff

Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

Charles H. Zeanah Jr.

Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics , Tulane University School of Medicine

Dolores (Dodie) Norton

Professor Emerita, University of Chicago

Edward Zigler

(1930-2019)<br> Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University School of Medicine

Jack P. Shonkoff

Founding Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Jeree H. Pawl

(1930-2021)<br>Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco

Kathryn Barnard

(1938-2015)<br>Professor Emerita, University of Washington

Kyle D. Pruett

Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine

J. Ronald Lally

(1939-2020)<br> Co-Director, WestEd Center for Child & Family Studies

Samuel J. Meisels

Founding Executive Director, University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute

T. Berry Brazelton

(1918-2018)<br>Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

Founding Members

T. Berry Brazelton

(1918-2018)

Selma Fraiberg

(1918-1981)

Stanley I. Greenspan

(1941-2010)

J. Ronald Lally

(1939-2020)

Bernard Levy

(2010)

Reginald S. Lourie

(1908-1988)

Peter B. Neubauer

(1914-2008)

Robert A. Nover

Founding Member

Sally Provence

(1917-1993)

Julius B. Richmond

(1917-2008)

Albert J. Solnit

(1920-2002)

Leon J. Yarrow

(1922-1982)