The Annual Sandra J. Skolnik Lecture

Early Childhood Reporter at the Hechinger Report and Spenser Fellow at the Columbia School of Journalism

Economist, Rand Corporation and writer for Bloomberg Opinion

Stanley & Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow, Department of Psychology, Temple University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute

Founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and research professor in the Department of Public Policy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 Professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Public Health, and clinical professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the School of Human Ecology, both at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. THe founding medical director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin, and chair, board of directors for Reach Out and Read National.

Executive Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaborative and the Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education, Professor of Africana Studies in the Human Development & Quantitative Methods Division of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Senior Fellow, Economics, and Director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative, and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institute

Best-selling author and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist

Author of Bowling Alone and the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University

Director of the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University; Dr. Renée Boynton-Jarrett, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine; and Dr. Albert Zachik, Director of the Office of Child and Adolescent Services, Mental Hygiene Administration, Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Owner & Co-host, Mom Enough

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning, U.S. Department of Education

Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Senior Research Fellow, Departments of Education and Social Policy, University of Oxford, and Prime Minister Tony Blair’s lead on the Smart Start Program

President, Ounce of Prevention Fund