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Andrea Pearson

Director, Educare Practice Educare Learning Network

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Allyx Schiavone

Executive Director | Co-Chair for Child Care for Connecticut's Future Friends Center for Children New Haven, CT

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Annie Frazer

Montessori Partnerships for Georgia; Ideal Learning Head Start Network

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Brenda Fyfe, Ph.D.

Dean and Professor Emeritus North American Reggio Emilia Alliance St. Louis, MO

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Cynthia D. Jackson

Executive Director Educare Learning Network Chicago

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Dawn A. Yazzie

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant National Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

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Deborah J. Leong, Ph.D.

President and Cofounder Tools of the Mind

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Denise Monnier

Director of State Advocacy Montessori Public Policy Initiative

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Elena Bodrova, Ph.D.

Co-founder and Tools Knowledge Advisor Tools of the Mind

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Elizabeth Beaven, Ed.D.

Alliance for Public Waldorf Education

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Emily Sharrock, MPA

Associate Vice President, Education Center Bank Street College of Education

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Iheoma Iruka, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Fellow, & Founding Director The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC

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Jeffrey A. Beal, Ph.D.

Codirector Center for Early Education Research and Evaluation (CEERE) HighScope Educational Research Foundation

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Jill Claxton

Director of Evaluation HighScope Educational Research Foundation

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Junlei Li

Senior Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Katie Brown, Ph.D.

Director of Professional Learning National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector

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Kate Lewis Kelley

Director, Reading Foundational Skills and Intervention EL Education

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Leonor Moreno Lundholm (Leo)

Director of Education Child-Parent Centers Inc.

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Lisa Roy, Ed.D.

Executive Director Colorado Department of Early Childhood

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Lynn Turner

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Coordinator Waldorf Early Childhood Association of Northern America (WECAN)

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Marina Rodriguez

Site Co-Director and Mentor Coach All Our Kin New Haven, CT

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Shannon D. Lockhart, M.A.

Early Childhood Applied Practice Manager HighScope Educational Research Foundation

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Shantel Meek, Ph.D.

Founding Director and Professor of Practice Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University

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Soyoung Park, Ph.D.

Coursework Instructor and Supervised Fieldwork Advisor Bank Street College of Education

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Susan Howard

Co-founder and Coordinator Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN)

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Teresa Granillo, Ph.D., MSW

Chief Executive Officer AVANCE, Inc

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Wendy Shenk-Evans

Executive Director Montessori Public Policy Initiative

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Wendy Waithe Simmons, Ph.D.

State Services Liaison The BUILD Initiative

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Alex Johnston, Ph.D.

Building Impact

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Ania Czekaj-Farber

Managing Director/Principal Czekaj Ventures LLC d/b/a Czekaj Artistic Productions

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Brian Boyd, Ph.D.

William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in Education University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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Celia Ayala, Ph.D.

Child360, Congressional Pre-K Caucus

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Ellicia Lanier

Founding Executive Director Urban Sprouts Child Development Center University City, Missouri

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Elizabeth Pungello Bruno, Ph.D.

Co-Chair, Trust for Learning; President, Brady Education Foundation Trust for Learning, Brady Education Foundation

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Libby Doggett, Ph.D.

Trust for Learning

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Lucy Y. Recio

Senior Advisor, Narrative and Movement Building National Association for the Education of Young Children

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Marianna McCall

Founding Partner & Co-Chair Trust for Learning

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Nora Flood

Wend Collective

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William A. Mehojah, Jr.

Former Director Office of Indian Education Programs Washington, D. C.

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Barbara Crockett (Emeritus)

Brady Education Foundation

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David Nee (Emeritus)

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Joan Lombardi, Ph.D. (Emeritus)

Early Opportunities, LLC

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Cathrine Aasen Floyd, PhD

Director of Ideal Learning Initiatives Trust for Learning Centennial, CO

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Chrisanne Gayl

Chief Strategy & Policy Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Washington, DC

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Ellen Roche

Chief Media & Philanthropy Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Washington, D.C.

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Nina de Cecco Walsh

Director of Operations & Grants Management Trust for Learning

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Tobi Adejumo

Director of Movement Building Trust for Learning Bridgewater, MA

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Toscha Blalock

Chief Learning & Evaluation Officer | Co-Director Trust for Learning Havertown, PA

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