Fellowship Class of 2020-2022
ZERO TO THREE is pleased to present our 2020-22 ZERO TO THREE Fellows!
The Fellows are a vibrant, diverse cohort of early and mid-career leaders who bring a broad range of expertise, skills, and perspectives to their commitment to ensure infants and toddlers have a strong start in life.
Selected from a highly competitive process, the Fellows will engage in an intensive 18-month fellowship experience that strives to strengthen and expand their leadership capacity to transform systems, policies, and programs in service to equitable access and outcomes for infants, toddlers, and their families. The complexity of challenges facing young children and families requires courageous, compassionate leaders who can mobilize a diversity of collaborators, partners, and constituents in collective action to advance innovative, sustainable change.
For more than four decades, ZERO TO THREE has been the premier organization for professionals who work to be champions in the lives of infants, toddlers, and their families. A legacy program of ZERO TO THREE, the fellowship strives to empower a global network of transformative leaders committed to making the world a better place for infants and toddlers. We are proud to welcome our new Fellows!
2020-2022 Fellowship Class
Sajeda Atari
Early Childhood Specialist , UNICEF
Jessica Beach
Tribal Relations Program Manager, WellCare Health Plans
Shannon Bekman
Director, Right Start for Colorado, Mental Health Center of Denver
Jazmyn Covington
Program Director of Home Visiting, Family League of Baltimore
Morgan Forrester Ray
Director, NC Initiative for Young Children’s Social-Emotional Health
Sadie Funk
Chief Executive Officer, First3Years
Jeffrey Holzberg
First Three Co-Founder , Chiricahua Community Health Centers, Inc.
Kalani Makanui
Director of Psychology Training , Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
Jennifer Mitchell
Senior Director, Clinical Strategy and Innovation, The Children's Center
Naya Patterson
Family Program Coordinator, Generation Hope
Alison D. Peak
Chief Executive Officer, Allied Behavioral Health Solutions
Elizabeth Pihlaja
State MIECHV Director, Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota
Shin Yee Tan
Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant, Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, Inc.
Jimena Vallejos
Southern-Cone Director/Government Consultant, IMAGO Global Grassroots
Julia Wessel
Assistant Director, Parent-Child Clinical Services Program & Director, Child Placement Consultation Team, Lourie Center for Children's Social Emotional Wellness - Adventist Healthcare
Muhammad Zeshan
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers Medical School-Newark
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