Biographies of Advisory Committee Members

Kathryn E. Barnard is a professor of nursing and adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Washington, where she has also served as associate dean of the School of Nursing. For the past 30 years, she has been a scholar, researcher, and educator with interests in children and parenting. She coordinated the risk and prevention group for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's health network on the transition to early childhood. Her research has focused on the interaction of children with their environment, particularly infants at biological and environmental risk. She is Past President on the Board of Zero to Three--the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs. She is a member of the American Academy of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine and has received many awards in nursing and public health.

Mary Jane Bevins is the Director of a multifaceted Head Start program that includes Parent and Child Centers, center-based and home-based services for three-and four-year-olds, and a Head Start Transition project. In addition to her experience as a practitioner, she has also provided training and technical assistance to Head Start programs in all component areas. Ms. Bevins has been a member of several task forces including the National Task Force for Parent and Child Centers, and the PCC Training Advisory Council for the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs.

Helen Blank is Director of Child Care and Development at the Children's Defense Fund, where she led a large-scale, successful effort to pass the first comprehensive federal child care legislation since World War II. She has focused a great deal of her efforts on strengthening both federal child care and Head Start policies. In addition, she provides technical assistance to states and policy leaders on early childhood development issues. Prior to joining the Children's Defense Fund, Ms. Blank worked at Child Welfare League of America, and helped to improve and expand participation in federal food programs serving low-income children with the National Child Nutrition project and the Community Nutrition Institute.

Sue Bredekamp is Director of Professional Development, National Association for the Education of Young Children. Among some of her roles as director are managing the NAEYC accreditation system, directing the National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development, and developing association position statements relevant to defining professional standards and practices. Dr. Bredekamp specializes in developmentally appropriate practices for preschoolers and has authored a book on developmentally appropriate practices for children birth through age eight. She has served on numerous panels and as a consultant on the issues of professional development and accreditation. She developed the Early Childhood Classroom Observation Scale, used by NAEYC's accreditation system, and served as a study advisor to the Observational Study of Early Childhood Programs, sponsored by the Department of Education.

Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Family Studies and of psychology at Cornell University, is an expert on developmental psychology, child-rearing, and the ecology of human development. A founder of the national Head Start Program, Dr. Bronfenbrenner is internationally renowned for his cross-cultural studies and is a recipient of honorary degrees both in this country and abroad. His theoretical contributions and his ability to translate them into rigorous operational research models and effective social policies spurred the creation of Head Start arid furthered the goals of Cornell's Life Course Institute, which has been renamed in his honor. Dr. Bronfenbrenner is the author, co author, or editor of 13 books and more than 300 articles, most notably Two Worlds of Childhood: US. and US.S.R. and The Ecology of Human Development.

Bettye Caldwell is Professor of Pediatrics in Child Development and Education at the University. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Known for her research of the home environment and its relationship to growth and development, she has served in many research and practitioner positions. Throughout her career, she has published numerous articles and books on infant and child development and child care, and contributed early work around the establishment of Head Start. One of Dr. Caldwell's most recent projects was "An Ecological Study of Infant designed to study the long term effects of infant day care. In addition, she has been a leader in the early childhood field, serving as President of the NAEYC and a member of the Governing Board of the Society for Research in Child Development, and participating in international consulting and speaking engagements.

Jane Campbell is a State Representative serving her fifth term in the Ohio House of Representatives. She chairs the Oversight Committee on Abused, Neglected, and Dependent Children and is a member of the Children and Youth Committee. She has also been involved with a number of committees that have looked at Ohio's school system, domestic relations, and adolescent sexuality and pregnancy. She has sponsored a number of important bills for children and their families including legislation to expand subsidized child care so 20,000 additional children can get quality care which will enable their parents to work; extending medicaid to working pregnant women; correcting discrimination against pregnant teenagers; and simplifying voluntary paternity procedures so unmarried fathers can take responsibility for their children.

Gayle Cunningham is the Executive Director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity, the Community Action Agency based in Birmingham, Alabama. She directs that agency's Child Development Services Division, which includes Head Start and Parent and Child Center programs, and a Head Start-Public School Transition Demonstration Project. The agency also operates a wide variety of other programs for low- income families and individuals. She was formerly an Assistant Professor responsible for coordination of the early childhood AA degree program at Delgado College in New Orleans, and a Senior Research Associate for Bank Street College responsible for the expansion of the Child Development Associate credentialing program to include infant/toddler caregivers.

Sharon Darling is the Founder and President of the National Center for Family Literacy. In 1989, with a grant from the Kenan Trust, the National Center for Family Literacy was created to promote family literacy programming nationwide. While State Director of Adult Education in Kentucky, she directed the development of the Parent and Child Education program, forerunner of the family literacy movement. Ms. Darling is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Institute for Literacy, a board member of both The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, and the National Coalition for Literacy. She has received numerous awards for her contributions to education, including the prestigious Harold W. McGraw Award for Outstanding Educator in 1993.

Amy L. Dombro is an Infant/Toddler Specialist. Formerly Director of the Infant and Family Center at Bank Street College of Education, she is an expert in infant/toddler programs. Ms. Dombro has extensive experience training Head Start and child care staff. She has also authored -three books and numerous articles for parents and caregivers. Currently, consulting with Families and Work Institute, she is directing the evaluation of Dayton Hudson's Child Care Aware/Family-to-Family Project, a national initiative to improve the quality of family child care.

Anne Cohn Donnelly is the Executive Director of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. As Executive Director, she oversees a 50-state network of chapters, a national center on child abuse prevention research, and extensive training in educational programs and advocacy efforts. The National Committee has provided leadership for the replication of the Hawaii Healthy Start home visiting model through its Healthy Families America initiative. Prior to joining NCPCA, she served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, handling a broad range of issues for the Secretary including children's health and social services. She has also lectured and published widely, and has designed the first national evaluation study of child abuse treatment programs.

Robert Emde is professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver. Dr. Emde is highly respected for his work on infant emotional development, and is the author or co-author of over 200 scholarly articles and chapters. Dr. Emde has held leadership positions in numerous national organizations and has served as an editor of developmental and clinical journals. He is the Past President of the Society for Research in Child Development, Senior Scientific Advisor for the World Association for Infant Mental Health, and a Board Member of Zero to Three. Additionally, Dr. Emde has been the invited plenary speaker for many national and international conferences.

Lily Wong Fillmore is a professor at the School of Education, Language and Literacy Division, at the University of California, Berkeley. She is recognized as a leading expert on issues of cultural diversity in child development and educational progress. Dr. Fillmore is also known for her work on language acquisition. She is currently on the National Advisory Committee of The Literacies Institute, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Advisory Committee of the Linguistic Minorities Resource center on Educational Equity of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Susan Fowler is the Head of the Department of Special Education at the University of Illinois in Champaign. She is a well respected researcher in the field of early childhood special education, and has authored numerous articles and chapters. Dr. Fowler has served in a national leadership role as the President of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) in the Council for Exceptional Children. She is currently a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System. Dr. Fowler has both State and Federal experience.

Olivia Golden is the Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services, Prior to coming to HHS, Dr. Golden served as the Director of Programs and Policy for the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, DC, where she was responsible for policy development, advocacy, research, data analysis and writing about a variety of children and family issues. Prior to that, she served as Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she focused her research on child and family policy and public management. From 1983-1985, Dr. Golden served as the Budget Director for the Executive Office of Human Services in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She is the author of a recently published book, Poor Children and Welfare Reform (Auburn House Press, 1992), and several papers and articles. Her research has focused on the way services work for real people, including issues of innovation, collaboration and effective service delivery for children and families.

Sarah Greene is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Head Start Association. Mrs. Greene has held a host of positions in the Head Start community including President of the National Head Start Association, a classroom teacher, Education Director, Head Start - Director and Executive Director of Manatee Opportunity Council, Inc. (a Community Action Agency). She serves as an ambassador for Head Start, speaking across the country, testifying before Congress, and participating with many other national organizations.

Judith Jerald is the Director of a Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) in Vermont. She coordinates an early childhood family support system for Brattleboro Town School District which serves families with children prebirth through age eight, and includes a CCDP, Even Start, a Parent and Child Center, a Teen Parent Infant Toddler Center at the high school, and transition to school programs. Ms. Jerald has extensive experience in program design, providing a wide array of direct social services, training, community organization, and administration. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and National Education Association.

Linda Kills Crow is the Director of Early Childhood Services (Head Start and the Child Care Development Block Grant Programs) for the Osage Tribe of Oklahoma and has been the President of the National Indian Head Start Directors Association since 1990. Prior to her current position, Ms. Kills Crow was the Director of the Native American Education Program at the University of Colorado, Denver. Ms. Kills Crow was a Head Start/Johnson and Johnson Management Fellow in 1991 and has served on numerous state and national boards, committees, and task forces.

J. Ronald Lally is the Director of the Center for Child and Family Studies of the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development in California. He is also the Director of the Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers. Prior to joining Far West Laboratory, Dr. Lally was a professor at Syracuse University, where he directed the Family Development Research Program. He is highly respected for his work in the emotional and social development of infants and toddlers. Additionally, Dr. Lally has expertise in developing both programs and training materials for young children and their caregivers. He is Founding Member and serves on the Board of Directors of Zero to Three (National Center for Clinical Infant Programs).

Joan Lombardi serves as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families on child care and Head Start issues. As an early childhood specialist, she has advocated for, improved and expanded services to very young children and their families through her work with a wide variety of national, state, and community-based organizations. She is the author of numerous publications, including Creating a 21st Century Head Start, the landmark report of the Head Start Advisory Committee on Quality and Expansion.

Harriet Meyer is the Executive Director of the Ounce of Prevention in Chicago, Illinois. The Ounce of Prevention supports programs focusing on teen parents and their children from 0-3, directly operates and administers the Beethoven Project, and is one of two Head Start grantees in Chicago as well as tbree school based adolescent health clinics. The Ounce also directs Kids Pepp, the Public Education and-Policy Analysis Division at the Ounce. Previously, Ms. Meyer was the Director of the Wells Community Iniative in which she directed the Ounce of Prevention's involvement in the revitalization of the Ida B. Wells public housing complex in Chicago.
 

Evelyn K. Moore is the Executive Director and founder of the National Black Child Development Institute, a national network of 40 affiliates in 23 states which work to improve the quality of life for African American children and their families. Before founding the Institute, Ms. Moore worked as a Special Assistant to Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Ms. Moore currently serves on the Boards of the National Council of Jewish Women Center for the Child, Child Trends, and Child Care Action Council. She works as a consultant to the Office of Education in. addition to numerous philanthropic organizations.

Genoveva P. Morales has been President of the National Migrant Head Start Director's Association for the past two years and presently serves as the Migrant Head Start Director for the Washington State Migrant Council. Ms. Morales has served the migrant community in many roles including Special Services Director and Migrant Education Chapter I Program Director. In addition to her work with migrant and seasonal farmworkers, Ms. Morales has held various positions in the academic setting serving as a Research Assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a financial aid counselor at the University of Washington, and an academic counselor at Eastern Washington University and at the Yakima Valley Community College. Her personal commitment to an improved transition effort of Head Start children into public school has led her to obtain her state certification for counseling in the public school setting.

Dolores Norton is a professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. She writes and teaches in the area of early human development within a sociocultural, ecological context, and directs the "Building Partnerships for Family Support Education and Training" project, a collaborative educational program between community based agencies, universities, and educational training organizations. She received her M.S.S. and her Ph.D. degrees from Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Norton's major research is an ongoing longitudinal study of parent-child interaction and developmental outcomes of inner city African American children from birth through age eleven, growing up in poverty stricken, dangerous neighborhoods. The research focuses on the children's socio-cognitive development with an emphasis on temporal and linguistic development and early academic achievement. She was a member of the founding board of Family Focus, Inc., and currently serves on boards such as Zero to Three:the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs and the Ounce of Prevention and Education for Parenting Advisory Boards.

Maria Elena V. Orrego is currently consulting and providing technical assistance to the Commission on Social Services, Department of Human Services, Government of the District of Columbia, to develop a five year strategic plan for the Federal Family Preservation and Support Services Program. Ms. Orrego was the former Executive Director of The Family Place, Inc., a comprehensive family support program in Washington, D.C. providing services to Latino and African-American families. Ms. Orrego was responsible for the planning, management, and evaluation of programs in two family support centers. Ms. Orrego has 10 years of experience as a direct social services provider in inner city communities, and twelve years of experience in development, implementation, and evaluation of community based programs for children and families. In addition to her work with families in inner city communities, Ms. Orrego serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Family Resource Coalition and the D.C. Act for Children.

Carol Brunson Phillips is the, Executive Director of the Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition, which administers the Child Development Associate National Credentialing Program. Throughout her career in early childhood education, she has been involved in both teaching young children and training teachers, first as a Head Start teacher. For 13 years she was a member of the Human Development Faculty at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena specializing in early childhood education and cultural influences on development. Dr. Phillips is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Head Start Bilingual and Multicultural Program Services Study and the National Head Start Training Panel of Experts.

Deborah Phillips is Director of the Board on Children and Families on the National Research Council's Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and the Institute of Medicine. She is on leave as associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Phillips received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Yale University. She was the first director of the Child Care Information Services of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and is a member of many task forces and advisory groups that address child and family policy issues, including the research task force of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Phillips has testified frequently before Congress on issues of child care quality.

Ed Pitt is Associate Director of the Fatherhood Project at the Families and Work Institute. The project is a national research and education initiative examining the future of fatherhood and ways to support men's involvement in childrearing. Mr. Pitt has been involved in many significant initiatives such as the White House Conference on Families, President's Commission on Mental Health, Secretary's Task Panel on Teen Pregnancy Prevention, and the National Health Council.

Gloria Johnson Powell is a child psychiatrist, formerly a professor of child psychiatry at Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, and is currently a tenured Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is best known for her research on the psychosocial development of minority group children. She wrote the first textbook in child psychiatry on ethnically and racially diverse children, The Psychosocial Development of Minority Group Children. Currently, she is director of the Ambulatory Care Center at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston and has developed a home-based services program for inner-city children and families in Boston called "Partnerships in Prevention: Building Rainbows" which uses a mobile service center to bring primary mental health care services "to the doorsteps" of children and families in need. This program has provided services to twelve housing projects and six Head Start programs whose children and families are trapped in their communities and homes because of drug-related crime, violence, and poverty.

Linda Randolph is a graduate of the Howard University College of Medicine and the School of Public Health, the University of California at Berkeley. For seVen years, Dr. Randolph was National Director of Health Services, Project Head Start. She continued her work in government by joining the New York State Department of Health serving first as an Associate Commissioner in New York City and subsequently as Deputy Commissioner, Office of Public Health in Albany. Concurrently Dr. Randolph was appointed Professor of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany. In 1991, Dr. Randolph was appointed Clinical Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She served on assignment from the medical school as Executive Director of the Carnegie Corporation Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children which released its report -- Starting Points-- earlier this year.

Julius B. Richmond is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus at Harvard University Medical School. Dr. Richmond, trained in psychiatry and pediatrics, was the first person to hold the positions of Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General. Dr. Richmond, together with his colleague Dr. Bettye Caldwell, designed one of the early programs for low- income preschoolers that integrated health and school readiness programs, which later became the model for Head Start, of which Dr. Richmond was the first Director in 1965 and 1966. Dr. Richmond has been awarded numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine's Gustav 0. Lienhard award, which recognizes "outstanding achievement in improving personal health care services in the United States."

Ann Rosewater is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs in the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. As Deputy Assistant Secretary, she has major management and policy-making responsibilities. Prior to coming to ACF, she was senior associate at the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago and senior consultant to both the Pew Charitable Trusts' Children's initiative and the Annie E. Casey, Ford and Rockefeller Foundation's Urban Change initiatives. Ms. Rosewater assisted in the creation of the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, and served as its staff director and deputy staff director from 1983-1900. From 1979-1983, she served as a senior legislative assistant to Congressman George Miller. During the 1970s, she was national education staff for the Children's Defense Fund and assistant to the vice president of the National Urban Coalition. Ms. Rosewater was the first non-elected official to receive the Leadership in Human Services Award of the American Public Welfare Association, received the President's Certificate for Outstanding Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics and is the author of numerous publications on child policy.

Shirley Senegal is a Head Start parent at the Opelousas Head Start Academy in Louisiana. She is the president of the Parent Policy Council and member and Chaplain of the Louisiana Head Start Association. Ms. Senegal is a NHSA Board Member and President of the Louisiana Head Start Parent Affiliate Group. Ms. Senegal is an active participant in both the Louisiana Head Start Association as well as the Region VI Head Start Association.

Lisheth B. Schorr is Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard University, a member of the Harvard University Working Group on Early Life, and Director of the Harvard University Project of Effective Services. Ms. Schorr's 1988 book, Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage, analyzed social programs that have succeeded in improving the life prospects of disadvantaged children. Ms. Schorr is currently pursuing the implications of her findings for the large-scale implementation of effective programs. Previously, Ms. Schorr helped establish the health division of the Children's Defense Fund and directed the health activities of the O.E.O.'s Community Action Program.

Helen H. Taylor is the Associate Commissioner of the Head Start Bureau at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to coming to HHS, Ms. Taylor was Executive Director of the National Child Day Care Association, Inc., which operated 16 preschool and 5 before and after school centers in Washington, DC. Ms. Taylor is former member of the Governing Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and was Chairperson of the. Mayor's Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Education. Ms. Taylor has 27 years of experience in designing and administering large, comprehensive child development projects, including Head Start, Model Cities, and locally funded child care programs.

Sally Vogler has served on the staff of Colorado Governor Roy Romer since 1988. In this capacity, she advises the Governor on policy and programs related to early childhood and directs First Impressions, the Governor's early childhood initiative. Over the past eight years, First Impressions has successfully put in place a number of key educational and community supports that promote the healthy development of young children and their families. These include the establishment of a statewide child care resource and referral system; the creation of family development centers and expansion of family literacy programs in the state through the "Read To Me, Colorado" program.

Bernice Weissbourd is Founder and President of Family Focus, an agency providing comprehensive family support services in four diverse Chicago communities. She is also Founder and President of the Family Resource Coalition, the national organization representing the family support movement. Ms. Weissbourd is a contributing editor to Parents magazine, and has authored books and articles on family support programs and policies, and on child development issues. Ms. Weissbourd was President of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Vice- President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and a member of the National Commission on Children. She is a lecturer at the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.

Edward Zigler is the 'Sterling Professor of Psychology, head of the psychology sections of the Child Study Center and the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University. He is the author and co-author or editor of numerous scholarly publications and has conducted extensive investigations on topics related to normal child development, as well as psychotherapy, mental retardation, intervention programs for economically disadvantaged children, and the effects of out-of home care on the children of working parents. Dr. Zigler served as the Chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau and first Director of the Office of Child Development, now the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, He was one of the original planners of Project Head Start. Dr. Zigler regularly testifies as an expert witness before congressional committees, and has served as a consultant to a number of cabinet rank officers.

Barry Zuckerman is professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston City Hospital. Dr. Zuckerman has developed model programs involving collaboration between pediatricians and educators to meet the needs of at-risk young children. He is a member of the National Commission on Children, and Carnegie Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children that produced Starting Points, past Chairman of the Section of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of many state and national organizations. Dr. Zuckerman has conducted research and written extensively on the impact of biological and environmental factors on the health and development of young children, especially those living in poverty.