Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
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Katie Albright
Safe & Sound
Senior Advisor
California
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Cara Aley
Global Operations Consultant
Maryland
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Reggie Bicha
American Public Human Services Association
President and CEO
Colorado
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Mia Birdsong
Next River
Executive Director
California
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P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Northwestern University, Institute for Policy Research
Professor Emerita of Human Development and Social Policy
Illinois
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Karla Davis
Whole Child Strategies, Inc.
Operations/HR Director
Tennessee
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Steven Dow
CAP Tulsa
Founder and Special Advisor
Oklahoma
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Christopher King
Ray Marshall Center, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer
Texas
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Andrea Levere
Capitalize Good
CEO
District of Columbia
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Meera Mani
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Vice President, Families and Communities
California
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C. Nicole Mason
Institute for Women's Policy Research
President Emerita
District of Columbia
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Margaret McKenna
Boston Human Rights Commission
Chairwoman
Massachusetts
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Wes Moore
State of Maryland
Governor of Maryland
Maryland
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Vivian Nixon
Columbia Justice Lab Square One Project
Writer in Residence
New York
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Eduardo Padron
Miami Dade College
President Emeritus
Florida
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Gloria Perez
Women's Foundation of Minnesota
President and CEO
Minnesota
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Mario Small
Department of Sociology at Columbia University
Quetelet Professor of Social Science
Massachusetts
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Henry Wilde
Acelero Learning, Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO
Wisconsin
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Dr. Richard E. Wylie
In Memoriam
Massachusetts
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Steve Liss
Boston Filmworks
Executive Director
Massachusetts
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