Senior Leadership
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.
Executive Leadership Team
Matthew Melmed
Executive Director
Ernestine Benedict
Chief Communications Officer
Jennifer Boss
Strategy & Operations Officer
Miriam Calderón
Chief Policy Officer
Tracy Crudup
Chief Human Resources Officer
Janice Im
Chief Program Officer
Pia Valdivia
Chief Financial & Administrative Officer
Candace Winkler
Chief Development and Strategy Officer
Senior Staff Leadership
Darneshia Allen
Manager, Training and Technical Assistance Integration, Safe Babies
Lynette Aytch
Director of the Leadership Development Institute
Elizabeth Bicio
Senior Director of Quality, HealthySteps
Rahil D. Briggs
National Director, HealthySteps
Debbie Cheatham
Director, Early Childhood Developmental Health Systems (ECDHS): Evidence to Impact Center
Julie Cohen
Associate Director, Policy Center
Patricia A. Cole
Senior Director of Federal Policy, Policy Center
Jamie Colvard
Director of State Policy
Wallace Daniels
Assistant Director, Human Resources
Justine Davenport
Director, Advocacy
Lauren Donovan
Director, Strategic Initiatives
Maria Gehl
Director, Practice and Field Operations, Safe Babies
Laila Fritz
Product Director of Technology, HealthySteps
Jenifer Goldman Fraser
Director, Research and Evaluation, Safe Babies
Kristen Greene
Associate Director, Professional Innovations Division (PID)
Noelle Hause
Senior PD Manager, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Professional Innovations Division (PID)
Greg Hollback
Interim Director of Individual Philanthropy
Janie Huddleston
National Director, Safe Babies
Thomas Layer
Senior Technology Officer
Sarah LeMoine
Senior Director, Professional Innovations Division (PID)
Johanna Lister
Director of Policy, HealthySteps
Katrina Macasaet
PD Manager, Professional Innovations Division (PID)
Eme Martin
Lead Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Bridgitt Mitchell
Senior Director of Training and Quality, National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning (NCECDTL)
Siobhan Mueller
Director of Communications and Marketing
Kathleen Mulrooney
Director, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Strategy-Program
Christina Nigrelli
Senior Director of Programs
Rebecca Parlakian
Senior Director of Programs
Amy Pirretti
National Director, National Center on Early Childhood, Development, Teaching, and Learning
Kathy Reschke
Senior Content Specialist
Julia Richards
Senior Director, Professional Innovations Division (PID)
Alice Ricks
Director of Strategic Operations, HealthySteps
Torey Silloway
Director, Policy and Financing, Safe Babies
Dorinda Silver Williams
Director, Military Family Projects
Luisa Soaterna-Castañeda
Director, Program Management and Technology, National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning (NCECDTL)
Christy Stanton
Senior Technical Assistance Specialist, Policy Center
Jennifer Tracey
Senior Director, Growth and Sustainability, HealthySteps
Nicole Tullis
Director of Development, HealthySteps
Lindsay Usry
Director, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Strategy-Policy
Lisa M. Wilson, M.Ed.
Director of Equity & Outreach, National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning (NCECDTL)
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