Alliance for Childhood Board of Trustees, 2011

 

President: Rosario Villasana, M.A., San Francisco, California. Director, Child Development Lab School at City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus; Faculty in the Child Development and Family Studies Department at City College of San Francisco; Program Director for LifeWays en Español; Community Programs Coordinator for the Caldwell Early Life Center at Rudolf Steiner College.

Secretary: William Crain, Ph.D., New York City. Professor of psychology at the City College of New York; author ofReclaiming Childhood and of Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications; editor of the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice.

Treasurer: Katrina Klaphake, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Development and Grants Coordinator for the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor; former Foundation and Government Relations Manager and Education Director for COSI Toledo, a hands-on science museum; Long-time advocate for informal science learning; Former board member of an inner-city charter school.

Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Professor Emerita at Lesley University; author of five books and numerous articles; speaks nationally on early childhood issues; recipient of numerous awards for leadership and advocacy in peace and early childhood education; most recent book Taking Back Childhood.

Elizabeth Goodenough, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan. Lecturer at the Residential College, University of Michigan; editor of Secret Spaces of Childhood, Where Do the Children Play?, and A Place for Play; originator and project adviser of the PBS documentary “Where Do the Children Play?” 

Lowell Monke, Ph.D., Springfield, Ohio. Associate professor of education at Wittenberg University; former award-winning computer-science teacher in the Des Moines, Iowa public schools; co-author of Breaking Down the Digital Walls.

Scott Nash, Founder and CEO of MOM's Organic Market.

Sara Wilford, M.S.Ed., M.Ed., Director of the Art of Teaching Graduate Program, member of the Psychology Faculty, and a faculty advisor to the Child Development Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Author of What You Need to Know When Your Child is Learning to Read  and Nurturing Young Children’s Disposition to Learn.

 

Alliance Staff

 

Joan Almon, executive director, joan.almon@verizon.net
Former co-chair of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America; international consultant on early childhood education.

Edward Miller, consultant, senior researcher, ed@allianceforchildhood.org

Niki Matsoukas, communications manager, niki@allianceforchildhood.org

Heidi Biffl, database manager, info@allianceforchildhood.org