Dan joined the Bezos Family Foundation in October of 2019 to focus on supporting and cultivating partnerships for the Vroom program.  Prior to joining BFF Dan has had a number of roles focused on systems work to support families.  He was the Executive Director of the Washington State Essentials for Childhood initiative, a cross systems, public private partnership with a vision that all children in Washington state thrive in safe, stable and nurturing relationships and environments. He also previously served as the Director of Policy and Partnerships at Thrive Washington. In that role he directed the community momentum strategy for 10 early learning regional coalitions and developed Thrive Washington’s legislative agenda. Dan spent the beginning of his career focused on child welfare policy as an associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and at Casey Family Programs. 

Natalece Washington, JD, CWLS, joined the NACC team in January 2021 as Policy Counsel. Natalece most recently served as Policy Administrator with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services where she developed and enhanced child welfare policies to ensure their continued alignment with federal and state laws, organizational changes, and shifts in best practice. Prior to joining the Division, Natalece held the role of Director of Operations for Fulton County CASA, Inc. where she focused on strengthening volunteer advocacy, establishing an in-service training program, and heightening staff development requirements. Additionally, she increased awareness of child welfare issues in the Atlanta community through her participation in community events, television and radio interviews, and panel discussions. Before joining Fulton CASA, Natalece provided legal representation and ongoing holistic advocacy for dependent children as a Senior Child Advocate Attorney at the DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center in DeKalb County, Georgia. In her free time, Natalece enjoys hiking trails, reading novels, and attending weekend brunch with friends.

Madeleine Thakur is president of The Children's Movement of Florida. She firmly believes in promoting a strong start for all children and in ensuring robust supports for families with young children. She oversees all of The Movement's outreach and communications efforts, including the business engagement initiative Bosses for Babies, and leads state-level policy efforts aimed at increasing investment in high-quality early learning, health care for children, and parent support. Madeleine serves on the steering committee for the Florida Chamber's Business Alliance for Early Learning, the state advisory board for the Florida Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) impact project, and the leadership table for Orange County's "Becoming a K-Ready Community" initiative. She chairs the Florida Early Learning Consortium, whose members represent parents, small business owners and nonprofit child care operators, early childhood funders, and the early childhood workforce and focus on legislative advocacy. A Miami native and one of five children, Madeleine was raised trilingual (English, Spanish, French) and is a proud graduate of Miami-Dade County Public Schools. She holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Chicago and a diploma from Sciences Po in Paris. A strong supporter of opportunities for youth, she served for two years as a counselor for an after-school program on Chicago's South Side and spent one year as a teacher's assistant in the English-as-a-Second-Language classroom of a Chicago elementary school. When she returned to Miami, Madeleine was a volunteer tutor at the Overtown Youth Center for several years. Before joining The Movement in September 2017, she spent nearly a decade focused on economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean, working closely with senior executives in the legal, tech, consumer goods, and financial sectors. She and her husband, Mike, live in Miami with their two young sons.

Lynanne Gutierrez supports Groundwork Ohio's statewide effort to advance quality early care and education by increasing the quality of and access to evidencebased interventions that support the healthy development of young children and position them for lifelong success. A dedicated child advocate, Lynanne leads the development and implementation of Groundwork's policy agenda, priorities and strategies through effective communication, advocacy, research and data analysis. Lynanne manages the Groundwork Ohio policy team and key policy initiatives supported by state and national partnerships and coalitions. She also provides targeted development and operational support for the organization. Lynanne leads the Ohio Early Childhood Race and Rural Equity project, Groundwork's ongoing commitment to eliminate racial disparities in Ohio's early childhood system supported by a half a million-dollar data and communications project from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to inform Ohio early childhood systems building and policy. As part of this work, the Ohio Early Childhood Race and Rural Equity Report, the most comprehensive early childhood report in Ohio history, was released in July of 2018. The Report takes a detailed look at statewide and regional disaggregated data analyzing twenty-six metrics spanning five state agencies from prenatal care to postsecondary attainment over the course of a child's life to examine the powerful role race, rural geography and socioeconomic status play in determining a child's education and health outcomes and their opportunity to access evidence based interventions that close gaps where they begin in the first five years of life. Lynanne previously worked as a Policy Associate for Voices for Ohio Children, providing targeted leadership, programming and advocacy in the areas of early care and education, grade level reading, health care access and coverage, child welfare, out-of-school programming, and nutrition and wellness. In this role, she also managed the Ohio Children's Oral Health Action Team. Prior to her advocacy work at Voices, Lynanne was in private law practice for five years. She specialized in child and family law, serving some of central Ohio's most vulnerable children and families. Lynanne often represented children as a Guardian ad Litem in private custody matters and in cases where the child was abused or neglected and children services was involved. She worked with children, their families, school administration and teachers, special education personnel, child care providers, mental health practitioners and pediatricians to complete required investigations and provide recommendations to the court as to custody and care of the child. Lynanne's passion and unique commitment to vulnerable families accessing the legal system was recognized by her peers in the legal community as a "Rising Star" recipient by the Columbus Bar Foundation in 2013. Before becoming an attorney, Lynanne served as a Senior Legislative Aide in the Ohio Senate where her member's work focused on policy development promoting equity in health, human services, education, housing, criminal justice and economic development. Lynanne has a B.A. from The Ohio State University and a Juris Doctorate from Capital Law School. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio and before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio. Lynanne also currently serves as a board member for The Columbus Academy Alumni Board. Lynanne lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and her baby boy who is the preeminent early childhood expert of her household.

Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist, Ramsay Endowed  Chair and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She has published widely and authored or edited eight books on trauma in the lives of children. Currently, together with three colleagues, she is editing the two volume WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early  Childhood Development. Dr. Osofsky is past president of ZERO to THREE and of the World  Association for Infant Mental Health. She has been awarded as an Honorary President of  WAIMH and currently serves on the Board of Zero to Three. She has had much experience  with response to disasters playing a leadership role as Clinical Director for Child and Adolescent Initiatives for Louisiana Spirit, the Crisis Counseling Program following Hurricane Katrina and  Co-Principal Investigator for the Mental Health Capacity  Program following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has served as Co-Principal of Centers within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network since 2003 and in 2007 received the  Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence in work with trauma by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.  In 2010 she was recognized with the Reginald Lourie Award for leadership and outstanding contributions to the health and welfare of children and families. In 2020, she was awarded the Translational Research Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies. In 2021, she received the ZERO TO THREE Lifetime Achievement Award.    

Mark is an Associate Research Professor. in the Center for Persons with Disabilities, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, and in Psychology at Utah State University. Mark has 40 years of experience working with infants and young children at-risk and with disabilities and their families through multiple research and model demonstration projects. He has examined areas such as social interaction, child transition, naturalistic intervention, parent-child interaction, and service system effectiveness. More recently, he has focused on various aspects of home visiting and preschool intervention services. Mark is an author of Developmental Parenting: A Guide for Early Childhood Practitioners, the PICCOLO (Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes) parent-child interaction observation measure and the HOVRS (Home Visit Rating Scales) an observational measure of home visiting practices. Mark is a past-president of the Division for Early Childhood and a member of the Zero to Three Fellows Academy.

Karin is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2002, and the founder of Theory to Action, LLC. Karin also has significant research experience and has served as co-investigator on various multi-million dollar grants examining the efficacy of Motivational Interviewing in various settings. Karin has previously worked as a consultant with the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA) in New Mexico, the VA Hospital System in Alaska, the Office of the US Airforce Surgeon General in Falls Church, VA, and the University of Texas San Antonio, along with 10 years of working as a psychologist within the National Health System (NHS) in the United Kingdom.

Lori A. Roggman, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development at Utah State University, studies parenting support of early development and effective practices to promote parenting in home visiting programs. She works with programs in the US and internationally to improve the quality and impact of home visiting services for families with infants and young children. She was lead developer of the PICCOLO (Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes), an observational measure of developmental parenting, and the Home Visit Rating Scales (HOVRS), an observational measure of home visiting quality. She was lead author of Developmental Parenting, that describes effective culturally responsive ways to increase developmental parenting through home visiting.

Linda Gilkerson, Ph.D., LSW, is a professor at Erikson Institute where she oversees the graduate training programs in infancy, infant mental health, and trauma-informed early intervention. She founded Erikson’s Fussy Baby Network, a family support program for parents of infants under one year. Dr. Gilkerson is the developer of FAN, an approach that is used widely across the U.S. and abroad to facilitate parent engagement and reflective practice in services for young children and families. Prior to this, she worked in hospitals for 12 years, leading model developmental and family support programs in pediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Her research and publications focus on relationship-based approaches and reflective supervision in a range of settings. Linda is also a former long-time board member of ZERO TO THREE and led or served on many early childhood task forces in Illinois. 

Alison D. Peak LCSW has spent the majority of her career dedicated to two primary passions: integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings and Infant Mental Health. Alison has an MSW from the University of Michigan with an emphasis in Interpersonal Practice with Children and Youth and two post-graduate certificates: Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings and Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health. Alison is also privileged to be a member of the 2020-2022 class of ZERO TO THREE Fellows. Alison collaborates across Tennessee and nationally to build programs that are responsive to gaps within the infant and early childhood mental health service delivery system

Leanne Kallemeyn, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Research Methodology at Loyola University Chicago's School of Education. She has been the principal investigator of multiple evaluation projects in the field of education, which she also uses as opportunities to innovate evaluation practice. Her scholarship has focused on how practitioners, particularly teacher and school administrators, use (and do not use) data and evidence in their daily routines. She uses this knowledge to build evaluation capacity in early childhood initiatives, schools and non-profit organizations. She has 19 published articles in journals, including American Journal of Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. Leanne teaches courses in program evaluation, qualitative methodology, and mixed-methodology.

Susan Friedman is NAEYCs Senior Director of Publishing and Content Development and leads the content development work of NAEYC's books and periodicals publishing. Early childhood educators rely on NAEYC books and periodicals and related content to stay up to date on research and effective practices they can apply directly to their classrooms. Susan has extensive experience creating content on developmentally appropriate practices, media and young children, play, equity and other topics for educators and families. She began her career as a preschool teacher in New York City and holds degrees from Vassar College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Karen Sandoval is a recent first-generation, Latinx graduate from Colorado State University. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Human Development and Family Studies and a minor in Spanish in May of 2021. Karen is the Program Coordinator for the Mil Dias de Amor Program at La Cocina, an infancy and early childhood mental health program focused on serving Latinx and Spanish-speaking families. She is passionate about co-creating paths to liberation with the Latinx community and supporting the families that La Cocina serves. Through this work, Karen hopes to take these experiences and return to school for Occupational Therapy in the near future. Her end goal is to be an occupational therapist supporting the needs of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities that are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC).

My name is Aby Garcia, I am a bilingual mental health provider at La Cocina and the Somos Las FAVAS Program Coordinator. I recently received my Master of Social Work from MSU Denver. I have been with La Cocina since May and during this time I have worked closely with Spanish speaking FFN child care providers in our community. I enjoy working with children and the important people in their lives who will help shape the adult they will become.

Elizabeth (Buffy) Trent Wolf, Psy.D., IMH-E, is a licensed psychologist, specializing in infant and early childhood mental health. As an undergraduate, Dr. Wolf studied psychology, music, and Spanish at the University of Arkansas. She then earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Pacific University School of Professional Psychology, where her training focused on Latinx mental health. Driven by a passion for culturally-affirming care, Dr. Wolf completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology at Boston Medical Center. Her post-doctoral fellowship at the USC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, provided specialized training in infant and early childhood mental health, and Dr. Wolf has obtained the Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health. Dr. Wolf is currently the Clinical Director at La Cocina, a Latinx-led and Latinx-serving nonprofit mental health and social justice agency in Colorado.

Jennifer Mitchell earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University where she specialized in Parent-Infant Mental Health. Some of her formative professional experiences prior to earning her doctorate were as a Child Welfare Specialist for the state of Oklahoma, as a transition counselor for girls in an alternative educational setting, and in her multiple roles within a domestic violence shelter in Florida. These experiences solidified the importance of relationship-based intervention and set her on the path of early childhood mental health. She currently serves as the Vice President of Clinical Strategy and Innovation at The Children's Center, a non-profit mental health agency serving children birth to 6 years. She holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position in the University of Utah's School of Medicine, and is co-Investigator on a research pilot focused on fostering an occupational environment of compassion and wellbeing with mental health paraprofessionals. She is also co-Investigator for multiple pilots focused on building a system of trauma-informed early childhood professionals. She is a board member and Past President of the Utah Association for Infant Mental Health and a board member of the Utah Psychological Association. She also serves on Utah's Early Childhood Advisory Council, Utah's Intergenerational Poverty Advisory Council, the Utah Registry for Autism and Developmental Disorders Oversight Committee, and numerous other community groups aimed at supporting young children and their families. She is trained in multiple evidence-based, trauma-informed treatments for young children, infant massage, and preschool mindfulness. Her current focus is supporting interdisciplinary professionals working with young children and families, and supporting alignment across early childhood systems. She is a current Fellow with ZERO TO THREE National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.

Kathy Kinsner has led ZERO TO THREE's grandparenting initiative for the last five years, focusing on the unique needs of grandparents caring for grandchildren under five. (zerotothree.org/grandparents) Most recently, Kathy co-created ZTT's Grand Connections series of grandparent workshops with input from Generations United, the National Family Support Network, and the National Council on Aging, and supervised its pilot at seven US sites. Before her arrival at ZERO TO THREE, Kathy worked for more than forty years as an educator in a variety of settings—as an elementary reading specialist, an Emmy- and NAACP Award-winning producer on PBS series Reading Rainbow, the designer of a non-profit weekly college and careers curriculum for 7th through 12th-graders, and the creator of online graduate courses for educators, one of which won a Teacher's Choice Award. Kathy holds Master's Degrees in Education (Bowling Green State University) and Television, Radio, and Film (Syracuse) and was a teaching assistant at both institutions. 

Tiffany is a former family childcare provider and K-readiness teacher. Tiffany had the great opportunity of working with a team of professionals to build a successful Family Child Care Program for the staff of a Charter School. Tiffany now is a Business Consultant at First Childrens Finance, She also is a trainer for Child care providers and School educators. She has had the great opportunity of training professionals on topics such as Health and Safety, Early Childhood Trauma, and Topics on the Business side of Child Care. She Coaches teachers on understanding the importance of language and challenges them to think about the way they view language. Tiffany brings 14 years of experience working in early childhood settings, assisting in curriculum development, training, and coaching, and program development. Tiffany received her BS Degree in Early childhood studies from Metropolitan State University. She also has received a Directors Credential from Mneayc-Mnsaca and an Infant and Toddler Credential from Child Care Aware of Minnesota. She values advocacy and spends her free time serving on committees that support the development of?children and families.

As Early Edge California's Policy Analyst, Anna Ioakimedes supports the work of Senior Analysts and the Executive Director. Anna comes to EECA with over a decade in policy and advocacy for women's and children's issues, including experience in political consulting and both domestic and international nonprofit organizations. She most recently worked as an analyst in the California Department of Social Services' Children and Family Services' Division, where she conducted legislative analysis, case review and research into the causes of severe child abuse and neglect. In her research, Anna was struck by the role that quality care in early childhood plays in preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening families. She is thrilled to help play a role in bringing improved options for high-quality early education to all California families. Anna holds a BA from the University of California, Riverside and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Giselle Navarro-Cruz is an assistant professor of Early Childhood Studies in the College of Education and Integrative Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she teaches courses on multilingualism, infant development, and early learning and care (ELC) teacher practicum. Dr. Navarro-Cruz earned her Ph.D. in Education from Claremont Graduate University, her M.A in Child Development from California State University, Los Angeles, and her B.A in Psychology with a minor in Applied Developmental Psychology from UCLA. Dr. Navarro-Cruz's passion for ECE began when she was an assistant teacher at the UCLA childcare center as well as a research assistant for several UCLA childrens research labs. Dr. Navarro-Cruz's research interest focus on enhancing access and quality to ELC using an asset-based framework. Currently, her research examines how institutions of higher education (IHE) support parenting students as they navigate childcare access and service on campus. In addition, Dr. Navarro-Cruz also conducts research that looks at how IHE are preparing the ELC teacher workforce to work with multilingual children and their families. She is an advocate for supporting young multilingual children and families access to high-quality ECE.

Maria Hinojosa is an award-winning journalist who, for nearly thirty years, has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media - from tales of hope in the South Bronx to the unseen victims of the War on Terror and the first detention camps in the US. Bestselling author Julia Alvarez has called her "one of the most important, respected, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx community."

Michael Bennet has represented Colorado in the United States Senate since 2009. Recognized as a pragmatic and independent thinker, he is driven by an obligation to create more opportunity for the next generation. Michael has built a reputation of taking on Washington dysfunction and working with Republicans and Democrats to address our nation’s greatest challenges, including education, climate change, immigration, health care, and national security. Before serving in the Senate, Michael worked to restructure failing businesses and helped create the world’s largest movie theater chain. As superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, he led one of the most extensive reform efforts in the country, resulting in substantial, sustained academic improvement for Denver’s children. He lives in Denver with his wife and three daughters.

Dr. Lee Johnson III, Ph.D., CHES, IMH-E is Senior Policy Analyst for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at ZERO TO THREE (ZTT). Before joining ZTT, Dr. Johnson served as a director at the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education. There, he led early childhood mental health and federal and state-funded home visiting efforts. Dr. Johnson is a former early childhood educator, health educator by training, and a newly minted public health Ph.D. His dissertation focused on the impact of early adverse experiences on the mental & physical health outcomes of Black boys & men and the power of relationships, solidified his selection for the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholars Dissertation Fellowship (2019-2020). He became a National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) Policy Fellow (2019-2021) in the same year. Upon completing the NBCDI Policy Fellowship, Johnson released his fellowship project, entitled Supporting Resilience in Black Families: Advancing Racial Equity in Early Childhood Mental Health Policy. The project acknowledges the developmental threat our society poses to the health and mental health of Black children. In addition, the project recognizes the need for racially equitable policies and approaches that empower Black families. Dr. Johnson holds his B.S. in early childhood education, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in public health from The University of Alabama.

Professor Masten is a Regents Professor and the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development at the University of Minnesota and a licensed psychologist. She completed her PhD in clinical psychology at Minnesota with an internship at UCLA and joined the Institute of Child Development at Minnesota in 1986. Dr. Masten is internationally known for her research on resilience in human development, particularly in the context of homelessness, poverty, war, disaster, and migration. Dr. Masten is a past President of the Society for Research in Child Development, recipient of numerous honors, and author of more than 200 publications, including the book, Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development. She offers a free MOOC (Mass Open Online Course) on "Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War" that has been taken thousands of participants from more than 180 countries.

Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist, Ramsay Endowed  Chair and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She has published widely and authored or edited eight books on trauma in the lives of children. Currently, together with three colleagues, she is editing the two volume WAIMH Handbook of Infant and Early  Childhood Development. Dr. Osofsky is past president of ZERO to THREE and of the World  Association for Infant Mental Health. She has been awarded as an Honorary President of  WAIMH and currently serves on the Board of Zero to Three. She has had much experience  with response to disasters playing a leadership role as Clinical Director for Child and Adolescent Initiatives for Louisiana Spirit, the Crisis Counseling Program following Hurricane Katrina and  Co-Principal Investigator for the Mental Health Capacity  Program following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has served as Co-Principal of Centers within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network since 2003 and in 2007 received the  Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence in work with trauma by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.  In 2010 she was recognized with the Reginald Lourie Award for leadership and outstanding contributions to the health and welfare of children and families. In 2020, she was awarded the Translational Research Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies. In 2021, she received the ZERO TO THREE Lifetime Achievement Award.    

Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD, a child psychologist by training, is a Presidential Professor who directs the Indian Country Child Trauma Center within the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Since 1994 she has directed Project Making Medicine, a clinical training program to training mental health providers in the treatment of child maltreatment using culturally based teachings. In 2020 she was awarded the National Suicide Prevention Resource Center, providing training and technical assistance throughout the country on suicide prevention efforts. With the establishment of the Indian Country Child Trauma Center in 2004, she was instrumental in the cultural adaptations of evidenced-based child treatment protocols. Under her guidance, four Evidenced Based Treatments were enhanced for American Indian and Alaska Native families in Indian Country, titled the Honoring Children Series. One of the four is Honoring Children - Mending the Circle, a cultural enhancement of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, for use with American Indian and Alaska Native children and their families. Dr. BigFoot has over 15 published articles and chapters, including serving as the lead author of the recent publication, "Adapting Evidence-Based Treatments for Use with American Indians and Native Alaskan Children and Youth." Dr. BigFoot has served as PI on sixteen federally funded projects. She currently serves on the federal Commission on Native Children, whose mission is to make recommendations to improve conditions affecting American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children and their families. Dr. BigFoot has over 30 years of experience and is knowledgeable about the concerns of implementation and adaptation of evidenced based practices being introduced into Indian Country. Dr. BigFoot is a member of the national TF-CBT Trainer Network. Dr. BigFoot is an enrolled member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma with affiliation to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana where her children are enrolled members

Dr. Marva Lewis research focuses on the development of culturally valid research methods, child abuse and neglect, and racism-based stress. Dr. Lewis uses culture-centered methods to prevent the intergenerational transmission of the legacies of the historical trauma of slavery such as the acceptance or rejection of children based on hair type and the practice of Colorism (valuing light skin color over darker skin tones). She is interested in the prevention and reduction of child abuse and neglect while strengthening parent-child attachment through the everyday ritual and routine of the hair combing task plus community-based parent support.

Jon Korfmacher, PhD, has devoted his career to forwarding scientific knowledge and applying what he and others have learned in practical ways related to home visitation. He joined Chapin Hall after over twenty years on the faculty at Erikson Institute, where he directed the Illinois Child Parent Psychotherapy Learning Collaborative, a project supporting community clinicians in the use of Child Parent Psychotherapy with young children and their families exposed to trauma. Dr. Korfmacher studies programs that provide in-home parenting support and links to community services for at-risk families in order to improve young children's health and well-being. His work focuses on understanding why families can have such different experiences in these programs and what kinds of support can improve their effectiveness. Dr. Korfmacher is a member of the leadership team of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC), a national network focused on supporting effective home visiting practice through innovative research designs. He has also earned a strong reputation among early childhood professionals around the world for work, as home visiting has become more common in countries outside the United States. He brings an international perspective, having advised home visiting programs in Brazil, Chile, and China and provided consultation to UNICEF in its initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Korfmacher is a Zero to Three Fellow and currently chairs the Annual Conference Program Workgroup