NAEYC Governing Board

Natalie Vega O’Neil, President / Junior Achievement of Washington, Auburn, WA

Ann McClain Terrell, Past President / Early childhood speaker and consultant, Graceful Leadership, Milwaukee, WI

Kelly Ramsey, Vice President / All Our Kin, Oklahoma City, OK

Brian Johnson, Secretary / Children and Youth Institute Michigan State University Extension, Lansing, MI

Michelle Wlazlo, Treasurer / JC Penney Co. Inc., Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

Joseph Alviani / Salesforce, Newton, NJ

Uhriel Bedoya / Fintech Executive, Miami, FL

Anthony Broughton / Claflin University, Cross, SC

Shayna Cook / Bainum Family Foundation, Washington, DC

Barbara Cooper / Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education, Montgomery, AL

Stacey French-Lee / Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Nadia Jones / Early Ed Architects, Atlanta, GA

G. Nicole Lazarte / Early childhood educator, Student, George Mason University

Charu Manocha / Greenlight Biosciences, Boston, MA

Nicol Russell / Teaching Strategies LLC, Phoenix, AZ

Ian Schiefelbein / Early childhood educator, Student, New Mexico State University

Toni Sturdivant / Texas A&M University-Commerce, College Station, TX

Traki Taylor / Frostburg State University / Frostburg, MD

Reginald Williams / South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC

Michelle Kang (Ex Officio) / NAEYC Chief Executive Officer, Washington, DC

Young Children Consulting Editors

Jessica Alvarado / National University, San Diego, CA

Lawrence Balter / New York University, New York, NY

Holland Banse / University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Bonnie Blagojevic / Morningtown Consulting, Orono, ME

Meghan Block / Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

Lorraine Breffni / Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Pam Brillante / New Jersey Department of Education, Special Education Services, Trenton, NJ

Amber Brown / University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX

Jennifer Buchter / Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

Teresa Byington / University of Nevada, Reno, NV

Karen Burger Cairone / Education Development Center Inc., Learning and Teaching Division, Newtown, PA

Lisa Castillo / South Salem Elementary School, Port Washington, NY

Eun Kyeong Cho / University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Dong Hwa Choi / Park University, Parkville, MO

Michael Connor / Chemeketa Community College, Salem, OR

Christan Coogle / George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Patricia Cooper / Queens College-CUNY, Long Island City, NY

Shelly Counsell / University of Memphis, TN

Jennifer Crandell / WestEd, Scituate, MA

Becky DelVecchio / University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Michelle Dent / Educational consultant, Connecticut

Dede Dunst / Mitchell Community College, Statesville, NC

Angela Eckhoff / Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

Andrea Emerson / Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR

Jeanne Galbraith / State University of New York, Geneseo, NY

Keri Giordano / Kean University, Union, NJ

Ron Grady / NOLA Nature School, New Orleans, LA

Kathleen Harris / Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA

Dorian Harrison / Ohio State University, Newark, OH

Holly Hatton-Bowers / University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Jayme Hines / Keene State College, NH

Emily Brown Hoffman / National Lewis University, Chicago, IL

Cindy Hoisington / Education Development Center, Newton, MA

Tamar Jacobson / Rider University, Philadelphia, PA

Rebecca Roji John / Old Dominion University, Chesapeake, VA

Kristen Kemple / University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Jinhee Kim / Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

Anita Kumar / William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ

Hannah Kye / Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ

Ji-Eun Lee / Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Sandra Linder / Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Melanie Loewenstein / Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX

Julia Luckenbill / Davis Parent Nursery School, Davis, CA

Christine Lux / Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Sue Mankiw / William Paterson University, Vernon, NJ

Bernice Mayfield / Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas, VA

Kelly McCormick / University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

Hannah Mills Mechler / University of North Texas at Dallas, Fort Worth, TX

Alison Mellott / Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

Lori Erbrederis Meyer / University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Gayle Mindes / DePaul University, Chicago, IL

William Mosier / Istanbul University, Dayton, OH

Meir Muller / University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Karen Nemeth / Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

Jodi Nerren / Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Neal Nghia Nguyen / Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

Monica O’Gara / City Neighbors Charter School, Baltimore, MD

Conrad Oh-Young / California State University-Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA

Laura Paciorek / MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA

Soojin Park / University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Cheryl Paul / Henry Barnard School, North Attleboro, MA

Rekha Rajan / Concordia University, River Forest, IL

Gurupriya Ramanathan / Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD

Alissa Rausch / University of Denver, Denver, CO

Nanci Red Bird / University of Montana Western, Dillon, MT

Gretchen Reynolds / Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Laurie Lee Richter / University of New Orleans, Metairie, LA

Dawn Rouse / University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

Angela K. Salmon / Florida International University, Miami, FL

Katie Schrodt / Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Holly Seplocha / William Paterson University, Westfield, NJ

Amy Shillady / Westminster, MD

Christine Snyder / University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Susan Stacey / Halifax Grammar School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Robyn Stone / University of California, Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension, CA

Gabrielle Strasfogel-Ryklin / Preschool of the Arts, New York, NY

Toni Sturdivant / Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX

Wenyang Sun / University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

John Sutterby / University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Rebecca Swartz / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Linda Taylor / Ball State University, Muncie, IN

Josh Thompson / Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX

Christy Tirrell-Corbin / University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Mary Trepanier-Street / University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI

Allison N. VanLoon / Acorn Academy, New Brighton, MN

Alyson Williams / Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, Richmond, VA

Brian Wright / University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Hsiu-Wen Yang / Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, Chapel Hill, NC

Jennifer Zosh / Pennsylvania State University, Media, PA

Voices of Practitioners Executive Editors

Megina Baker / Neighborhood Villages, Boston, MA

Amanda Branscombe / Athens State University, Athens, AL

Maleka Donaldson / Smith College, Northampton, MA

Isauro Escamilla / Las Americas Early Education School, San Francisco, CA

Barbara Henderson, Coeditor / San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Ben Mardell / Harvard University, Boston, MA

Debra Murphy / Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA

Frances Rust / University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Andrew J. Stremmel / South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

Editorial Advisory Board

Stacey M. Alfonso / University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Georgina Ardalan / JO Wilson Elementary School, Washington, DC

Cindy Ballenger / Tufts University, Medford, MA

Nancy Barbour / James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Megan Blumenreich / City College of New York, New York, NY

Robyn Brookshire / University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Cheryl Bulat / Morton College, Cicero, IL

Kathryn Castle / Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Lori Caudle / Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

Sherry Cleary / City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY

Carol Copple / Early education consultant and writer, Nashville, TN

Mary Cronin / Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable, MA

Jerlean Daniel / Early childhood consultant, Stoney Beach, MD

Mary Garguile / Olympic College, Bremerton, WA

Anna Golden / Atelierista Sabot School, Stony Point Campus, Richmond, VA

Beth Graue / University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Renata Love Jones / Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Martha Melgoza / Consultant and Without Walls Learning Cooperative, Richmond, CA

Mary Jane Moran / University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN

Leah Muccio / University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Carrie Nepstad / Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL

Rebecca S. New / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Gail Ritchie / Fairfax County Public Schools, Alexandria, VA

Danielle Savory Seggerson / Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI

Jamie Solomon / University of Michigan, Flint, MI

Stacia Stribling / George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Patricia Sullivan / San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Kaile Thomas / The Little School, San Francisco, CA

Nathaniel U. Weber / Russian Hill School, San Francisco, CA

Ashley Williams / Jumpstart for Young Children, San Francisco, CA