Leadership
Board Officers
Walter S. Gilliam, PhD
President
Executive Director, Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska
Tammy Mann, PhD
Vice President
President and CEO, The Campagna Center
Eugene P. Stein
Treasurer
President and CEO, Tikun Olam Foundation
Michael R. Olenick, PhD
Chair, Committee on the Board
President and CEO, Child Care Resource Center (CCRC)
Brenda Jones Harden, PhD
Immediate Past President
Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work
Matthew Melmed, JD
Executive Director
Board Members
Lee Beers, MD
Medical Director, Community Health and Advocacy, Children’s National Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Abel Covarrubias, MA
Founder and CEO, Aprendamos Intervention Team
Felicia DeHaney, PhD
Director of Program and Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD
Associate Director, Child Trauma Research Program, University of California, San Francisco; Director of Dissemination and Implementation for Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Mary Margaret Gleason, MD, FAAP
Division Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School; Vice Chief of Mental Health, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters
Aimee Hilado, PhD, LCSW
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Temple University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jon Korfmacher, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago
Andrew N. Meltzoff, PhD
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair, Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS), University of Washington
Michelle Meyercord
VP of Programs, Dalio Philanthropies
Catherine Monk, PhD
Professor, Medical Psychology, Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ob/Gyn), and Founding Director, Women’s Mental Health @Ob/Gyn, Columbia University; Research Scientist VI, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Joy Osofsky, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Public Health Head, Division of Pediatric Mental Health at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Helen H. Raikes, PhD
Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Michelle Sarche, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health; tribal citizen, Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe
Kandace Thomas, MPP, PhD
Executive Director, First 8 Memphis
Barbara A. 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, MBA
Vice President of Care Delivery, Forefront Telecare
Executive Leadership
Matthew Melmed, JD
Executive Director
Ernestine Benedict
Chief Communications, Marketing and Professional Innovations Officer
Jennifer Boss, MSW
Strategy and Operations Officer
Miriam Calderón, MSW
Chief Policy Officer
Tracy Crudup
Chief Human Resources Officer
Janice Im, MS
Chief Program Officer
Pia Valdivia, MA, MBA
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Candace Winkler, MPA, MSW
Chief Development and Strategy Officer
