Featured Guests

Bimmer Torres
Lola Adedokun
The Aspen Institute
Marta Alvira-Hammond
Research Scientist
Child Trends
Maryland
Tetiana Anderson
Host
Comcast Newsmakers
District of Columbia
Leah Austin
President & CEO
National Black Child Development Institute
Georgia
Rumeli Banik
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Nelson Barranco
Parent Advisor, New Mexico
Ascend at the Aspen Institute
New Mexico
Randall Baylor
Program Lead for Community Engagement
Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN)
District of Columbia
Marianne Bellesorte
Family Values @ Work
District of Columbia
Miguel (Mike) Bezos
Bezos Family Foundation
Lisa Bohmer
Director, Global Early Childhood Development
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Mayor Muriel Bowser
Mayor
City of Washington, DC
District of Columbia
Justin Brown
Secretary
Oklahoma Human Services
Oklahoma
William (Bill) Bynum
Chief Executive Officer
HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation and Hope Credit Union)
Mississippi
Erin Cannon
Social Science Research Analyst
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, HHS
JooYeun Chang
Program Director for Child Well-Being
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Wendy Chun-Hoon
US Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
Christina Church
Maryland Department of Human Services
Maryland
January Contreras
Assistant Secretary
Administration for Children and Families
Vinice Davis
Imaginable Futures
Rebecca Dixon
National Employment Law Project
Kathleen Dwyer
Senior Social Science Research Analyst
Administration for Children and Families
Governor Tony Evers
Wisconsin State Government
Wisconsin
Philip Fisher
Director
Stanford Center on Early Childhood
California
Miecha Ranea Forbes
The Aspen Institute
Gayle Goldin
Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
Chelsey Hall
Colorado Dept of Human Services
Colorado
Iheoma Iruka
Research Professor & Founding Director
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amy Jacobs
Commissioner
Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
Georgia
Nick Jones
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Catherine Kamara
Advocate for Youths in Foster Care
Crittenton Services
Mayor Tim Keller
City of Albuquerque
New Mexico
Nat Kendall-Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Frameworks Institute
Patrice King Brickman
Inspire Capital
Billie Jo Kipp
Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute
Jen Klein
Gender Policy Council, The White House
Katherine Korenaga
Hawaii Department of Human Services
Hawaii
Celinda Lake
President
Lake Research Partners
District of Columbia
Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO
Citizen University
Valeria Martinez
Parent Advisor, New Mexico
Ascend at the Aspen Institute
New Mexico
Airea Matthews
Philadelphia Poet Laureate, Director of the Poetry Program
Bryn Mawr College
Wes Matthews
2018-2019 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate
Cristen Moore
Teamer Strategy Group, LLC
Jennifer Ng’andu
Managing Director
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
New Jersey
Nasser Paydar
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education
US Department of Education
District of Columbia
Nikki Pitre
Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at the Aspen Institute
Governor Jared Polis
Governor
State of Colorado
Colorado
Dan Porterfield
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute
Rosa Rada
State of Connecticut
Connecticut
Vasu Reddy
National Partnership for Women and Families
District of Columbia
Fatima Riaz
Program Officer
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Emily Sama-Miller
Principal Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research
Erica Smiley
Executive Director
Jobs with Justice
District of Columbia
Julie Sweetland
Senior Advisor
Frameworks Institute
Karen Walker
Tennessee Department of Human Services
Tennessee
Michael Warren
Associate Administrator
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
District of Columbia
Elizabeth Wildsmith
Research Scholar, Reproductive Health and Family Formation
Child Trends
North Carolina