Leadership
Board Officers
Walter S. Gilliam, PhD
President
Executive Director, Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska
Tammy Mann, PhD
Vice President
President and CEO, The Campagna Center
Eugene P. Stein
Treasurer
President and CEO, Tikun Olam Foundation
Michael R. Olenick, PhD
Chair, Committee on the Board
President and CEO, Child Care Resource Center (CCRC)
Brenda Jones Harden, PhD
Immediate Past President
Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work
Matthew Melmed, JD
Executive Director
Board Members
Lee Beers, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital & The George Washington University School of Medicine
Abel Covarrubias, MA
Founder and CEO, Aprendamos Intervention Team
Felicia DeHaney, PhD
Director of Program and Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Phil Fisher, PhD
Diana Chen Professor of Early Childhood Learning and Director, Stanford Center on Early Childhood, Stanford University
Andrew Garner, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD
Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program, University of California, San Francisco
Mary Margaret Gleason, MD, FAAP
Chief, Early Childhood and Training & Education, Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Aimee Hilado, PhD, LCSW
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Temple University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jon Korfmacher, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago
Michelle Meyercord
Senior Executive, Private Family Office
Catherine Monk, PhD
Professor, Medical Psychology, Columbia University
Joy D. Osofsky, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Public Health, PLSU Health Sciences Center; Adjunct Professor, Xavier University of Louisiana
Helen H. Raikes, PhD
Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michelle Sarche, PhD
Professor, Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska; Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado School of Public Health, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Kandace Thomas, MPP, PhD
Executive Director, First 8 Memphis
Barbara A. Thompson
Former Director, Office of Military Family Readiness Policy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
H. Marcel Wright, MBA
Vice President of Care Delivery, Forefront Telecare
Executive Leadership
Matthew Melmed, JD
Executive Director
Ernestine Benedict
Chief Communications and Marketing
Officer
Jennifer Boss, MSW
Chief of Staff
Tracy Crudup
Chief Human Resources Officer
Janice Im, MS
Chief Program Officer
Melissa Boteach
Chief Policy Officer
Pia Valdivia, MBA
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Candace Winkler, MPA, MSW
Chief Development and Strategy Officer
