Virtual Event: Celebrating Black Excellence

As the Director of Equity & Outreach, Lisa Wilson oversees the development and implementation of equitable practices within the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning (NC ECDTL). Working closely with the Center Director and Consortium Leadership Team, she ensures DTL implements a lens of equitable practices within all aspects of its work, coordinates regularly with the Office of Head Start (OHS), and operationalizes center-wide equity, CLRP, and co-creation efforts, including consortium partners' work, to efficiently manage the annual workplan.

Lisa is Co-Founder of C.A.R.E., a coalition of dynamic activists and change agents who develop curriculum and professional learning offerings that empower professionals to fight and advocate for social justice and human rights towards an equitable and inclusive world for all people. As previous Professional Development Coordinator for Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge pilot in Los Angeles County, Lisa expanded her passion for quality programs for all children to close the opportunity gap. She is previous chair and co-chair for Child Care & Early Education Task Force, as well as a member of Community Voices and has worked in the field of early childhood education for over 20 years. Lisa has led two programs through NAEYC and NAA accreditation; she also has experience working in group homes as an administrator.

Lisa is adjunct faculty member of the Early Childhood Education Department at Pacific Oaks University and previous adjunct at College of the Canyons and Santa Monica City College. She consults programs in the following areas: quality improvement, environment, teacher-child interactions, being a culturally responsive educator, Title 22, Title 5, grant writing, licensing preschools, licensing family childcare, mindfulness education, challenging behaviors, antiracism, DEI integration, team building, STEAM expertise, technology integration, organizational leadership, and professional development

Lisa has a Master's in Education with an emphasis in Multicultural Curriculum and Instruction. She is currently completing her dissertation for a Doctor of Education (EdD) in Curriculum and Instruction.

Yvette C. Latunde @doc_Yvette is the Co-Director for the Center for Educational Equity and Intercultural Research (CEEIR) and Professor of Organizational Leadership at the University of La Verne. She is the founder of Bridges Leadership and Education Services, LLC. An educator for over two decades, she has traveled widely to share the good news about the strengths, capacities, and capabilities of students, their families, and communities. She is an international speaker, author, and community servant who enjoys yoga, writing, walking and spending time in nature. 

She is the author of Equitable by Design and Research in Parental Involvement. Her areas of expertise include: Family Engagement, Black Family Engagement with schools, Neurodiversity, and Home-Schools-Community Partnership. 

Dr. William L. White Jr. hails from Fredericksburg, VA and holds a PhD in special education at the University of Washington where he most recently received the Gordon C. Lee Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled "Through Our Eyes: The Lived Experiences of Black Male Early Childhood Teachers." William received his B.A. in political science/pre-law and his M.Ed. in special education from Virginia State University a HBCU located in Petersburg, VA. He also holds an Education Specialist Degree in Early Childhood Special Education from The Graduate School of Education & Human Development at The George Washington University. William was a 2020-2021 Start with Equity Fellow at The Children's Equity Project at Arizona State University. Currently, William is the co-designer and Director of My Brother's Teacher which works to increase the presence of Black and Brown males in early childhood education and Part-Time Early Childhood Education faculty at North Seattle College. He also continues to provide pro-bono special education consulting to families of students in the Washington, D.C., and the Seattle area.

Ms. Owens-Green is Technical Assistance Liaison for National Center on Subsidy Innovation and Accountability (NCSIA) and provides support to CCDF grantees to help them reach goals related to subsidy eligibility, integrating quality and subsidy, strengthening program integrity, payment rules, rate setting, and other policies and practices that support providing high-quality care to children from low-income with high needs families. Serve as the NCSIA Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Families Experiencing Homelessness and represent NCSIA on the Equity Inclusive & Cultural Linguistic Responsive Practices (EI&CLRP) and the Tribal Subcommittee workgroups. She has spent the last twenty-five years focused on equity, diversity and inclusion in the early care and education system. 

Ms. Owens-Green has more than 25 years of combined experience in early care and education, human service administration, and supporting healthy families though counselling and therapeutic services. Ms. Owens-Green served as the state administrator over the development and implementation of the Federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) for the state of Tennessee and was formerly the CCDBG Coordinator for the state of North Carolina. Ms. Owens-Green was and Instructor for early childhood education courses in the North Carolina Higher Education system for over seven years.