Our ZERO TO THREE leadership team takes a unique multidisciplinary approach to child development.
They bring together the perspectives of many fields, and their expertise is rooted in all domains of development—social, emotional, intellectual, language, and physical. The ZERO TO THREE management team and Board of Directors work together to promote children’s overall health and well-being in the context of family and culture.
Board Officers

Walter S. Gilliam
President

Tammy Mann
Vice President

Eugene P. Stein
Treasurer

Michael R. Olenick
Chair, Committee on the Board
Board of Directors

Lee Beers
Medical Director, Community Health and Advocacy, Children’s National Hospital

Abel Covarrubias
Founder and CEO, Aprendamos Intervention Team

Felicia DeHaney
Director of Program and Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Phil Fisher
Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

Andrew Garner
Andrew Garner, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Chandra Ghosh Ippen
Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program, University of California, San Francisco

Mary Margaret Gleason
Division Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School & Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters

Aimee Hilado
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Professor of Psychology, Temple University and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Jon Korfmacher
Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago

Michelle Meyercord
VP of Programs, Dalio Philanthropies

Catherine Monk
Professor, Medical Psychology, Columbia University

Joy Osofsky
Paul J. Ramsay Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans

Helen H. Raikes
Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Michelle Sarche
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health

Kandace Thomas
Inaugural Executive Director of First 8 Memphis, Memphis and Shelby County

Barbara Thompson
Former Director, Office of Military Family Readiness Policy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy

H. Marcel Wright
Vice President - Care Delivery, Forefront Telecare
Board Emeritus

Alicia F. Lieberman
Director, Child Trauma Research Program, San Francisco General Hospital

Samuel J. Meisels
Founding Executive Director, University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute

Ann Pleshette Murphy
Parenting Educator and Counselor

Dr. Dolores (Dodie) Norton
Professor Emerita, University of Chicago

Kyle D. Pruett
Yale School of Medicine

Arnold J. Sameroff
Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan

Jack P. Shonkoff
Founding Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

Charles H. Zeanah Jr.
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics , Tulane University School of Medicine
Founding Members

T. Berry Brazelton
(1918-2018)

Selma Fraiberg
(1918-1981)

Stanley I. Greenspan
(1941-2010)

J. Ronald Lally
(1939-2020)

Bernard Levy
(2010)

Reginald S. Lourie
(1908-1988)

Peter B. Neubauer
(1914-2008)

Robert A. Nover
Founding Member

Jeree H. Pawl
(1930-2021)

Sally Provence
(1917-1993)

Julius B. Richmond
(1917-2008)
