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Early Childhood Education and Pay for Success: From Theory to Practice

June 17, 2014 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Harvard Club of New York City 27 W 44th Street

New York, NY

PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES

Samantha L. Aigner-Treworgy Ounce of Prevention Fund Samantha leads the Ounce of Prevention’s work with school districts around the country. Prior to returning to the Ounce, Samantha directed special projects for Chicago Public Schools’ Office of Early Childhood Education. Her work included overseeing the Chicago: Ready to Learn! Initiative, beginning with a city-wide application process aimed at ensuring that Chicago was investing in high-quality early childhood programs that meet the unique needs of Chicago’s diverse communities.

Samantha previously worked for the Ounce of Prevention with the Illinois Policy Team, where she coordinated the development of the Illinois Early Learning Guidelines for Children Birth to Age Three and focused on state-wide home visiting advocacy, among other projects. Samantha has experience as a preschool teacher and early childhood social emotional consultant, as well as extensive involvement in state-wide political campaigns and initiatives in Illinois. She holds two master’s degrees from the University of Chicago, from the School of Social Service Administration and the Harris School of Public Policy, and a Bachelor of Arts in Education and Child Studies from Smith College.

Jeremy Ayers Results for America/America Achieves Jeremy is the Director of Policy at Results for America/ America Achieves. He previously served as Education Policy Advisor for the U.S. House Committee on Education & the Workforce. In this role he provided legislative and policy support on K-12 issues including accountability, assessment, school improvement, education research, and oversight of ESEA waivers. Prior to joining the Committee Jeremy was Associate Director of Federal Education Programs at the Center for American Progress, a classroom teacher

in Florida, and a policy analyst for the Alliance for Excellent Education, a national high school reform organization. He got his start in education working for the Family Resource Center, a small nonprofit serving rural North Carolina children and families. Jeremy holds a master’s degree from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from McMurry University in his home state of Texas.

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Peter Beard United Way Worldwide Peter leads a team in developing the global, national and community strategies, practices and products that help United Ways make stronger communities. United Way focuses on the building blocks of education, financial stability and health to improve the lives of people and communities. Prior to joining United Way, Peter served in a number of executive leadership roles at the Fannie Mae Foundation in

Washington, DC; and he also served as the general counsel and US area director at Habitat for Humanity International in Americus, GA. He practiced corporate law at Semmes, Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore, MD. Peter received his A.B. in economics from Davidson College and J.D. (magna cum laude) from Syracuse University College of Law.

Andrea Camp Consultant Andrea Pamfilis Camp has a background in policy and strategic communications, with over 30 years of experience on Capitol Hill focused on advancing women’s rights, early learning, and family economic security. Andrea’s career on Capitol Hill included serving as the Senior Legislative Director and Press Secretary to former Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colorado); communications director to the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families; and brief stints as chief of staff to Democratic Leader Nancy

Pelosi’s congressional office. Most recently, from 2009 to 2011, Andrea was the Executive Director of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. A former senior fellow at the Civil Society Institute, where she spearheaded its portfolio on education, Andrea now currently advises CSI on outreach on its environmental work. Andrea is a Senior Advisor to First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books to children in need and serves as a senior consultant to the Communications Consortium Media Center, where she helps foundations and nonprofits align policy and communication strategies on health care, early learning, child welfare, and women's reproductive rights. Andrea has also been a consultant on communications and legislative strategies for a range of clients, including the Aspen Institute, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Lifetime Television, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Center for Policy Alternatives, and the Recording Industry Association of America. Andrea is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia.

Ian Galloway Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Ian Galloway is a senior research associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Ian researches and presents regularly on a variety of community development topics including crowdfunding, investment tax credits, the social determinants of health, impact investing, and Pay for Success financing (Social Impact Bonds). He also recently co-edited Investing in What Works for America’s Communities (2012), a collection of essays jointly published with the Low Income

Investment Fund on the future of anti-poverty policy. Previously, Ian developed a social enterprise


(virginiawoof.com) for the Portland, Oregon homeless youth agency Outside In. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Colgate University.

John Grossman Third Sector Capital Partners John joined Third Sector after completing the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership. Prior to that, he spent over fifteen years working for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, much of it striving to bring performance management to the state. He most recently served as the Undersecretary for Forensic Science and Technology within the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (“EOPSS”). In that role, he was responsible for

providing strategic leadership to the State Crime Lab, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Criminal Justice Information System, and the Massachusetts 911 Department. Additionally, he supervised the information technology operations of all of the secretariat’s eleven agencies. Prior to joining EOPSS, he served for 12 years in the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, leaving as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Bureau after leading the prosecution of all types of white collar crime and standing up the nation’s first statewide computer crime unit. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Court Management Advisory Board. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Boston University School of Law and holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. John is the project manager for the pioneering Massachusetts juvenile recidivism PFS project.

Janice Gruendel, Ph.D., M.Ed. Yale University Dr. Janice M. Gruendel has nearly 20 years of experience in State of Connecticut government, serving in the administrations of five governors. She also brings nine years in the non-profit advocacy sector and seven years in private business related to children and families. She is currently a member of the Harvard Center on the Developing Child’s Frontiers of Innovation Initiative,

focused on expanding “science to policy” pathways that incorporate the research on brain development for America’s most vulnerable children and families. In October 2013, she completed her third tour of service within the CT Department of Children and Families as Deputy Commissioner for Operations in this 800 million dollar comprehensive services agency for children. In addition to leading significant child welfare reform, she created and co-led the state’s Continuum of Care Partnership with 120 members including citizens, advocates and state and provider agency representatives. In 2012, she launched a three-year initiative called The First 1000 Days, directed at advancing investment in families with children during their first three years, for which she authored a Connecticut briefing report entitled “Houston, we have a problem…” Gruendel has extensive experience in policy, fiscal and data analysis, strategic planning, program management and assessment, research, early childhood data systems development, and community


planning. In addition to DCF, she served in executive leadership positions with Connecticut’s Departments of Public Health, Developmental Services, and Corrections, and she guided CT’s early childhood effort from 2004-2009 as former Governor M. Jodi Rell’s senior early childhood policy advisor, as co-chair of the Connecticut Early Education Cabinet and as a member of the Governor’s Early Childhood Research and Policy Council. Gruendel also has accumulated experience in both the nonprofit advocacy sector and in the business world. From 1991-1996, she worked in the for-profit sector as Vice President for Education and Technology in a children’s entertainment business, Rabbit Ears Productions. In 1995-96, Gruendel co-founded and served as co-president of Connecticut Voices for Children, a nationally-recognized statewide children’s advocacy organization, where she worked until 2004. Upon leaving state service, Gruendel returned to her consulting business, where she is currently engaged with the Public Consulting Group (Boston), National Governors Association, Center for the Study of Social Policy, and the MOMS Partnership at Yale University. In March 2014, she completed an analysis of emerging two-generation frameworks that is now available online at both Ascend at the Aspen Institute and the Center for Social Policy. She is also involved in national and state efforts to develop Pay for Success performance models with impact investments from the private, corporate sector. Dr. Gruendel received her Ph.D. from Yale University in Developmental Psychology, and she holds a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. Her B.A. degree in Sociology was awarded by the University of Maryland, magna cum laude. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Gruendel is married to an Appellate Court judge and has three sons and six grandchildren. Two of her sons and one daughter-in-law served in the United States military, and Gruendel maintains an active interest in how state systems can better support military families.

Scott Hippert Parents as Teachers As president and chief executive officer of Parents as Teachers since January 2012, Scott Hippert leads one of the largest evidence-based home visiting organizations in the United States. With over 2000 affiliated organizations, Parents as Teachers programs deliver services to nearly 250,000 families across the United States and in six other countries each year. In Missouri, PAT is central component of early childhood

education in most public school districts. Scott Hippert previously served as president of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation in Richmond, and co-chaired Virginia’s Early Childhood Advisory Council. He also served as the vice president and chief operating officer at Ready 4 K in Minnesota, and served in senior leadership for Family and Children’s Service, one of Minnesota’s largest family service agencies. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles in ministry and management positions with a Fortune 100 telecommunications company. He began his career as a broadcast journalist. Hippert holds a master’s


degree in divinity from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Northern Iowa.

Myra Jones-Taylor Biography, Ph.D. Connecticut Office of Early Childhood Dr. Myra Jones-Taylor is the Commissioner for the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood. The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) was established in 2013 to coordinate and improve the various early childhood programs and components in the state to create a cohesive high-quality early childhood system. She was appointed to lead the new agency by Governor Dannel P. Malloy in June 2013.

Dr. Jones-Taylor previously served as an assistant professor-faculty fellow at the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. She is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in early care and education policy. Her research focused on the effects of early care and education reform on child care providers in low-income urban communities and the children and families who are intended to benefit from those reforms. She received her doctorate in American studies and anthropology from Yale University, where she also received two master’s degrees: one in African American studies and the other in American studies. She is an Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy Fellow and a recipient of the Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship. She is a former member of the New Haven Board of Education and the New Haven Early Childhood Council, and former Board Secretary of All Our Kin, a nationally-recognized organization that trains and support child care providers. She was also an Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at the Humanities Initiative at New York University. Dr. Jones-Taylor lives in New Haven with her husband and two children.

Sherri Killins, Ed.D The BUILD Initiative Sherri Killins, Ed.D, is the Director of Systems Alignment and Integration for the BUILD Initiative. Over the last year she has and continues to provide consulting services. Her clients have included the BUILD Initiative, WK Kellogg Foundation, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading and Pearson Publishing. Dr. Killins was the former Commissioner of Early Education and Care for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Dr. Killins has been committed to supporting families as a two generation

strategy. Recently, she has focused on developing early education and care systems for children from birth to third grade. Her efforts seek to support families as children's first teachers to have access to high quality opportunities. She achieves this goal in part through working with state systems, school districts, communities, programs, educators, and families. As Commissioner, she designed and implemented a statewide method to define, measure, and communicate quality, known as the Quality Rating and Improvement System, for early education and care as well as out of school time programs. Under her leadership, Massachusetts secured the Race To The Top Early Learning Challenge to provide financial resources to accelerate the work already under way in Massachusetts. Dr. Killins is known for crossing organizational boundaries to create a child


development lens on the work of informal organizations as well as within other state agencies including public health and housing. Dr. Killins has worked as an advocate for children and families in a variety of ways for more than 25 years, both as a provider of direct care and in leadership roles on issues relating to children and families. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Killins worked at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, an organization that promotes “public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.” She held several roles in the Foundation. Her final position was serving as Vice President for Human Development and Operations. Prior to her work with the foundation, she served as the founding President/CEO of the New Haven Empowerment Zone, was a mayoral candidate in New Haven, Connecticut, and led operations and programs for both the Empowerment Zone Corporation and the Family Preservation Initiative of Baltimore. Dr. Killins holds a nursing degree from the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s of administrative science from Johns Hopkins University, and a doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Sarasota. Dr. Killins has served on a variety of boards including the New Haven Housing Authority, New Haven Regional Workforce Board and Connecticut Trails Girl Scouts . She was appointed to the Regional Advisory Committee under the U.S. Department of Education and to the MA Commission on Postpartum Depression. Most recently, she was appointed to the Boston Children’s Museum Board of Advisors. Dr. Killins has been recognized by several organizations, examples include: the Massachusetts Reading Association Legislative Award for her leadership in promoting early childhood literacy and Horizons for Homeless Children Public Leadership Award. Dr. Killins resides in New Haven, Connecticut and is the mother of three daughters.

Niko Klein Imprint Capital Niko Klein leads Imprint Capital’s market-based scanning across sectors and mission areas — education, food & agriculture, health and wellness, community development, financial inclusion, energy & the environment and racial & gender equity — both in the US and the developing world. Since joining Imprint, Niko has designed and performed eight market landscapes and participated in over a

dozen transactions as the Analyst and Associate responsible for diligence in Imprint’s investments in Acelero Learning, Revolution Foods, Wireless Generation (acquired by NewsCorp for $400MM in 2010), Root Capital, Elevar Equity, NCB Capital Impact and Public Radio Capital, among others. Prior to Imprint, Niko Klein co-founded a wine-tourism project in Mendoza, Argentina; assisted in fundraising and operations at the CASA Community Health Organization in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico; and held various positions at the World Wildlife Fund, Columbia University’s School of Social Work, and the Brainfood Summer Institute. Niko Klein has a Bachelor’s in English Literature from Columbia University and is from Washington, DC.


Joan Lombardi, Ph.D. Buffett Early Childhood Fund and Bernard van Leer Foundation Joan Lombardi Ph.D. is an international expert on child development and social policy. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Buffett Early Childhood Fund on national initiatives and to the Bernard van Leer Foundation on global child development strategies. She was recently named as a Distinguished Senior Fellow for the Education Commisson of the States.

Over the past 40 years, Dr. Lombardi has made significant contributions in the areas of child and family policy as an innovative leader and policy advisor to national and international organizations and foundations and as a public servant. She served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development (2009-2011) in the Obama Administration, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs in Administration for Children and Families and the first Commissioner of the Child Care Bureau among other positions (l993-1998) during the Clinton Administration. Outside of public service, she served as the founding chair of the Birth to Five Policy Alliance (now the Alliance for Early Success) and as the founder of Global Leaders for Young Children. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Save the Children and the Board of Directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning. She also directs Early Opportunities LLC, focusing on innovation, policy and philanthropy.

Philip A. Peterson Aon Hewitt and ReadyNation/America’s Edge Philip A. Peterson is a partner for Aon Hewitt, specializing in global retirement strategies, stock option valuation and human capital metrics development. Phil joined Aon in 1987 and has more than 30 years of employee benefit consulting experience. He formerly managed Aon’s Retirement Practice in Philadelphia, managed the Philadelphia office and chaired the National Defined

Benefit Practice Council. He now leads Aon’s national State and Local Government consulting practice. Phil helped co-create with Child Care Matters, the Aon/United Way of Southeastern PA Hand-in-Hand Award for quality child care in the business community. He has also testified before the House Education Committee of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on the importance of child care to the business community. Phil has served on the board of the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, and on the state board of the Pennsylvania Economy League. Phil is the co-chair of the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission, and the co-chair of the Advisory Board of ReadyNation. Phil earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Dickinson College. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and an Enrolled Actuary.


William Pinakiewicz Nonprofit Finance Fund In his work at NFF, Bill specializes in developing innovative strategic financial management services and initiatives that support expanded capital access for nonprofits and advance financial sustainability in the not-for-profit sector. Bill is a senior member of the NFF team that, under grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and The Irvine Foundation, is helping to build the system-wide capacity in the U.S. social sector that

is required for outcomes-driven, Pay-for-Success financing approaches, such as the Social Impact Bond. Bill was a featured member of the panel on Pay for Success Readiness at the Pay for Success: Investing in What Works convening that NFF co-hosted with the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in October 2011. He speaks and writes extensively on not-for-profit finance topics such as: strategies for collaboration in the nonprofit sector, the Pay-for-Success financing model and impact investing. Bill has been featured in events and articles on these topics by organizations including the National Council of State Legislatures, National Governor’s Association, Social Enterprise Alliance, Harvard Human Services Summit, The Center for Leadership Innovation, Pittsburgh Nonprofit Summit, Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits, Colorado Association of Funders, MaRS Discovery District (Canada), PRI Makers Network, The Aspen Institute, The New York Times, Institutional Investor Magazine, Huffington Post and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Bill did his undergraduate work at Williams College, holds both M.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University and brings 20 years of finance and capital markets experience from his career in investment banking and private banking in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa to his work in the not-for-profit sector.

Anna Maeve Potere Ounce of Prevention Fund Anna is a Policy Analyst on the Illinois Policy Team at the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a public-private partnership that seeks to close the achievement gap for at-risk children by improving the quality of and access to early education for children birth to age five. Anna advocates at the city, state, and federal levels to improve early education policies for at-risk children and families. She specializes in financing

strategies and maternal and child health policy, especially in the prenatal to 3 age range. Prior to joining the Ounce, Anna worked both domestically and internationally to improve quality of life for at-risk women and children. After consulting for FEMA to improve emergency planning and response for people with disabilities and other special needs, including children, she moved into the field of international development. She specialized in research on maternal and child health in developing countries, and did field work volunteering at a care home for orphans with HIV in New Delhi, India before deciding to focus on early education policy in the US at the Ounce. Since 2011, she has been a Fellow in the National Women’s Law Center Progressive Leadership and Advocacy Network (PLAN). She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a


Bachelor’s of Science in Culture and Politics, and earned a Master’s of Science in Political Economy of Late Development with honors from the London School of Economics.

Jessica Pothering ImpactIQ Jessica Pothering is a business and finance journalist, focusing on impact investing, social entrepreneurship and economic development. She writes for Impact Alpha, Huffington Post Impact and others and has previously reported for financial publications covering the global private equity, real estate and insurance markets. Ron Prinz, Ph.D. University of South Carolina Ron Prinz, Ph.D., received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. After earning a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977, Dr. Prinz joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina. He has coedited the Advances in Clinical Child Psychology annual research series with Thomas Ollendick and has been named lead editor of a new journal, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. An elected

member of the Board of Directors in the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Dr. Prinz is a member of the violence and traumatic stress grant review panel at the National Institute of Mental Health. His research activities are in the areas of prevention and treatment of childhood aggression via family and school interventions.

Jane Robinson First Book Jane Robinson Chief Financial Officer Jane serves as the chief financial officer for First Book and the First Book Marketplace. Jane had a distinguished career with law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, where she served as CFO for two decades as it evolved from a small firm to its current status as a major litigation firm with multiple offices in the United States. Jane has superior skills in financial management and has provided strategic guidance for First Book and its

subsidiaries during a period of unparalleled growth. In addition to her financial role for First Book, Jane, together with Kyle Zimmer and Chandler Arnold, serves on the executive management team, overseeing all operations and strategic development for the organization. Jane has a degree in Math and Physics from Arcadia University and she did graduate work at the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center.

Jeff Schoenberg The J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Jeff Schoenberg is an advisor to The J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, a Chicago-based philanthropy. The Foundation is a private family foundation deeply committed to the pursuit of social justice and to shaping innovative and effective strategies for solving society’s most challenging problems. Mr. Schoenberg principally advises members of the Pritzker family on grant making for The


Children’s Initiative, a project of the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation which seeks to enhance the early learning capabilities of infants and toddlers, with a special focus on at-risk children. Among the initiatives supported by The Children’s Initiative are the Pritzker Consortium on Early Childhood Development, a research collaborative led by Nobel Laureate economist James Heckman of the University of Chicago; the First Five Years Fund, a national early childhood advocacy project led by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Cornelia Grumman; and the Ounce of Prevention Fund, one of the nation’s leading providers of programs, research and policy focused on helping at-risk infants and toddlers and their families. As part of his philanthropic portfolio for the Pritzker family Mr. Schoenberg conceived The Cambodia Tribunal Monitor web site, considered the primary source for information on the historic international genocide trial of senior Khmer Rouge leaders. The site, which includes extensive video footage of court proceedings and commentary, was developed by a consortium of academic, philanthropic and non-profit organizations committed to providing public access to the tribunal and ensuring open discussions throughout the judicial process. Mr. Schoenberg also serves as an assistant majority leader in the Illinois State Senate, representing communities in Chicago’s northern suburbs.

Katie Shifley Center for Evidence-based Policy Katie Shifley is currently pursuing her master's in public administration, with a focus on state and local government finance, from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Previously she worked at US Bank as a commercial credit analyst before joining the US Peace Corps as a small business development volunteer. Post-graduation she will be joining the Center for Evidence-based Policy in Portland, OR as a Hatfield Fellow. Her work will focus on capacity building in service delivery organizations as the Center rolls

out its Pay 4 Prevention pilot project.

Jeff Shumway Social Finance Jeff is the Vice President of Advisory Services at Social Finance. In this role, Jeff works to increase the firm’s capacity to help social service organizations pursue pay-for-success financing with an emphasis on measuring performance and achieving results. Before joining Social Finance, Jeff spent nearly a decade with The Bridgespan Group where he worked with foundations, intermediaries, and direct-service organizations to develop actionable, data-driven strategies. His projects included strategic planning initiatives with nonprofits and major philanthropies in the areas of economic development, homelessness, college readiness, youth mentoring, and youth development.

Prior to joining Bridgespan, Jeff spent two years at the Monitor Group working with Fortune 500 clients in energy, transportation, and health care. He also worked in the Urban Institute's Metropolitan


Housing & Communities Policy Center. Jeff is a graduate of Brigham Young University and has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Linda Smith U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Linda K. Smith is the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Inter-Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood Development for the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In this role she provides overall policy coordination for the Head Start and Early Head Start Program and the Child Care and Development Fund, as well as serving as the liaison with the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies. Her

office serves as a focal point for early childhood policy at the federal level. Smith previously served as the executive director for the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), where she represented more than 650 community-based agencies concerned with the care of children in their earliest years. Linda Smith led the organization through significant growth and transformation- she was the driving force behind NACCRRA's national policy agenda and strategic plan to improve the quality of child care nationwide. Key components of NACCRRA's advocacy efforts included strengthening child care licensing and oversight, requiring comprehensive background checks, and establishing minimum training requirements for all child care workers. Prior to joining NACCRRA, Smith served as a legislative fellow and professional staffer on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under the Chairmanship of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Prior to this work, she was the director of the Office of Family Policy for the Secretary of Defense, where she was one of the primary architects of the military's child care program. Additionally, Linda Smith has held positions with both the United States Army and United States Air Force. Smith began her career in early childhood education on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in her native state of Montana. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. Bradley Thomas Triple P America Bradley J. Thomas, is the CEO of Triple P America. Before joining Triple P America he worked with Triple P International, based in Brisbane, Australia, the global headquarters for the Triple P program. Triple P (Positive Parenting Program) is a system of evidence-based education and support for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents (from birth to age 16). Prior to working with Triple P he was involved for over ten years in transferring research undertaken by public organizations into the community. His primary focus was in seeing the effective translation of world-wide public health initiatives from the research world to the public, including in the fields of biotechnology and social services. It was in this capacity that he first became involved with Triple P, over ten years ago.


Brenda Van Gorder Granite School District Brenda Van Gorder holds graduate degrees in Special Education, with an emphasis in Early Childhood, and Educational Leadership and School Administration. Currently Ms. Van Gorder is the director of Granite School District Preschool Services in Salt Lake City Utah, where nationally recognized high quality practices are implemented under her direction and works in partnership with investors in the first Social Impact Bond in a preschool setting.

Ms. Van Gorder presents regularly at the local, state, and national level regarding numerous topics related to early childhood and special education issues including legal foundations for special education, best practices, and program compliance. Brenda is involved in leadership capacities with numerous state level committees and workgroups including: Early Childhood Utah Advisory Board, Utah State Special Education Finance Committee, Early Learning Network in South Salt Lake, and Intergenerational Poverty. Brenda provides technical assistance and professional development to state and district level agencies including: Technical Assistance for Excellence in Special Education Center, Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, Utah State Office of Education Title I and Special Education Early Childhood, and Utah Education Network Early Childhood Library. Brenda is currently contracted with multiple states to provide technical assistance and state level complaint investigations and teaches undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students at the University of Utah in the area of special education law. Ms. Van Gorder has authored and co-authored numerous articles in professional publications specific to coaching, early childhood, and special education topics.

Albert Wat National Governors Association Albert Wat is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Education Division of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, where he works on early childhood education issues, from birth through third grade. Most recently, his work has focused on policies regarding literacy, data systems, learning standards, assessments, and alignment between early learning policies and practices and education reform initiatives, especially those in the early elementary years. Before

joining the NGA, he was the Research Manager at Pre-K Now, an advocacy campaign at the Pew Center on the States, where he authored a number of policy reports, managed research activities for the initiative, and provided analysis and information about the latest pre-k and early education research and policy developments to Pre-K Now staff and its network of state partners. Albert began his career in education in schools and community-based organizations. He taught and worked in school reform nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area for four years before moving to Michigan and eventually, Washington DC, where he directed campus-based literacy organizations at the University of Michigan and Georgetown University, training college students to serve as literacy tutors to low-income children and families. Albert holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in education from Stanford University and a master’s in education policy from George


Washington University.

Sara Watson ReadyNation/America’s Edge Sara Watson is the National Director for ReadyNation/America's Edge, a project of the Council for a Strong America. Most recently, Sara was Executive Vice President for National Partnerships and Director of ReadyNation at America's Promise Alliance. From 2001 - 2011, Sara was a senior officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts, where she directed Pew's national pre-kindergarten campaign, founded ReadyNation and advised three other children’s advocacy campaigns. She has

worked at The Finance Project in Washington, D.C., the Family Policy Council in Olympia, Washington, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C. Sara has a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and master of public policy and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Henry Wilde Acelero Learning Henry oversees operations of Head Start programs for Acelero Learning, including eight centers in Milwaukee County. He formerly served as the Deputy Secretary for the Department of Children and Families for the State of Wisconsin. Henry coordinated the creation of the Department, including overseeing the Head Start State Collaboration Office, the state’s CCDF program, and the state’s child care regulatory functions. He began his career working as a Special Assistant to Marian Wright Edelman at the Children's Defense Fund, after graduating from Harvard

University magna cum laude. Henry earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he focused on social entrepreneurship. He is the recipient of an Ascend Fellowship from The Aspen Institute, one of a select group of 20 leaders from across the country who are pioneering two-generation approaches to move families beyond poverty.


The Aspen Institute Staff: Anne Mosle Vice President, the Aspen Institute Executive Director, Ascend Anne Mosle is a vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute. She is a leading thinker, advocate, and voice in building pathways to opportunity for low-income families and women. With more than 20 years’ experience in policy and philanthropy, Anne has been recognized as Washingtonian of the Year, Ms. Magazine Woman to Watch, and as Visionary

Philanthropist. She is also an author of The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink.

In her current role at the Aspen Institute, she directs Ascend, the national hub for breakthrough ideas and collaborations that move vulnerable children and their parents towards educational success and economic security. Ascend has been a national leader in catalyzing a two-generation approach to breaking the cycle of poverty. Under Anne’s leadership, Ascend has launched a national values-based fellowship program and is investing $1.5 million in promising programs and policy solutions. In all its work, Ascend engages the voices of families and diverse leaders. In 2014, Ascend plans to launch a new two-generation learning network.

Prior to the Aspen Institute, Anne served as a vice president and officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), where she was on the executive team and oversaw $140 million in investments. In addition, Anne led the creation of WKKF’s Family Economic Security portfolio, and managed their civic engagement portfolio and the launch of their mission-driven investing program. Before joining WKKF, she served as the president of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, spearheading seven years of unprecedented growth. She was also the lead architect of their nationally recognized Stepping Stones initiative to build the financial independence of women and families. Earlier in her career, Anne served as senior vice president at the Center for Policy Alternatives, developing leadership and policy programs for state elected and community leaders. She has organized major summits at The White House and 10 Downing Street as well as numerous state and community forums.

Anne serves on the Advisory Committee of the Oxford University Said School of Business and on the National Trustees Council of America's Promise. She lives with her family in Washington, DC.

Jennifer Stedron Senior Program Manager Jennifer Stedron is a senior program manager of Ascend at The Aspen Institute and focuses on early childhood development and policy opportunities for two-generation approaches. Jennifer is the former Executive Director of Colorado’s Early Childhood Leadership Commission and the former Policy Director for Early Childhood in the Office of Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia. In this capacity, she spearheaded the ECLC’s work to establish Colorado’s new Office of Early Childhood and led the grant

application effort that resulted in Colorado’s $45 million Early Learning Challenge Fund award. Prior to


this position, Stedron served as a Program Director in the Education Program at the National Conference of State Legislatures, where she managed policy work in early childhood, time and learning, school finance, and special education. She is also a founding member of the national Early Childhood Data Collaborative. Stedron received her bachelor’s from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Denver in child clinical psychology with a specialty in developmental cognitive neuroscience.

Sandhya Deshetty Program Associate Sandhya Deshetty is a program associate of Ascend at The Aspen Institute and focuses on Ascend’s research project on identifying lessons learned from impact investing in the U.S. that can be applied to building family economic security. Prior to joining Ascend, Sandhya worked in both program management and development roles in the nonprofit sector. After earning a Master in Business Administration at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Sandhya launched a project that is

exploring models that can orient Ethiopia’s nascent wine industry toward creating economic opportunity for small-scale farmers. Prior to attending Goizueta Business School, Sandhya helped develop donor stewardship policies for Emory University and designed a grant program for KaBOOM!, a national non-profit working to create safe places to play for every child in America. Sandhya received a bachelor's degree in psychology from George Mason University. Institute for Child Success Staff:

Jamie Moon President Jamie Moon joined the Institute for Child Success (ICS) as President in March 2012. Originally from Upstate South Carolina, Jamie earned his bachelor's degree from the College of Charleston and master's degree in International Affairs from The American University in Washington, DC. Prior to joining ICS, Jamie was the Executive Director of the Center for Developmental Services (CDS) in Greenville, SC from 2009-2012. Jamie also served

as a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State, working as a consul and vice consul in Latin America. Early in his career, Jamie led the client relations efforts of Blackbaud, a company headquartered in Charleston, SC providing technology solutions to nonprofit organizations. Jamie is active in the community, serving on the steering committee of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce Nonprofit Alliance (NPA), the development council of the GHS Children’s Hospital, the community advisory panel of the Junior League of Greenville, and the advisory Council for the Spartanburg Quality Counts initiative. Jamie is also an advisory board member for the University Council for Educational Administration Center for Leadership in Law & Education at Clemson University and serves on the Advisory Committee


for the Early Childhood Development program at Greenville Technical College. Jamie is a member of the Rotary Club of Greenville, an elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church, and serves as a den leader for the Pack 19 Cub Scouts.

Joe Waters Vice President Joe Waters oversees and provides overall direction for strategic initiatives, public policy, and communications of the Institute for Child Success (ICS). In that capacity, he focuses on creatively building the Institute’s approach for achieving impact, and realizing its mission and goals. He also leads the Institute’s efforts in searching for new opportunities, catalyzing innovation, building leadership capacities, developing partnerships, and crafting and executing initiatives in support of all pillars (research,

integration, and policy) of the Institute’s work. Joe works with local, state, and federal elected government leaders and their staffs, corporate leaders, and other partners to ensure the success of every child in school, their lifelong health, and contribution to a prosperous society. Joe has led the Institute’s efforts in impact investing, including ICS’ exploration of the feasibility of using Social Impact Bonds to scale and sustain early childhood home visiting interventions. Furthermore, Joe leads ICS’ efforts to reform South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness which has included the drafting of significant bi-partisan legislation to overhaul the work of that agency; work to successfully expand and improve the quality of publicly supported 4K in South Carolina; and efforts to expand evidence-based home visiting. He leads a substantial exploration—in partnership with design firm Ferebee Lane + Co.— of using design techniques to tackle complex, systems-level challenges in early childhood health and education. A Greenville, South Carolina native Joe earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Furman University and his Master of Divinity degree from Duke University.

Katy Sides Director of Research and Grants Katy Sides joined ICS as the Director of Research and Grants in September 2013. She previously worked for the Greenville County Soil and Water Conservation District as their Community Relations Coordinator and the city of Toccoa, Georgia as the Information and Graphics Specialist. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Sociology from Furman University in 2007 and her Master of Public Administration from the University of Georgia in 2010. Katy is a member of the Junior

League of Greenville's Community Project and Development Committee as well as a member of the Chamber's PULSE program.

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