Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Dara Eskridge
Invest STL
Executive Director
Missouri
Susan Gale Perry
Child Care Aware of America
CEO
Virginia
Ashley Goldon
Blue Meridian Partners
Portfolio Manager
Michigan
Tanguler Gray
Office of Child Support Services, Administration for Children & Families
Commissioner
Georgia
Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy
American University
Dean and Distinguished Professor, School of Education
Maryland
Jerreed Ivanich
University of Colorado
Assistant Professor, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Colorado
Kim Janey
Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath)
President & CEO
Massachusetts
Raychael Jensen
Ballmer Group
National Director, Early Childhood and Families
Florida
Pascual Maestas
Town of Taos, New Mexico
Mayor
New Mexico
Karla Maraccini
Deloitte Consulting
Government and Public Sector Professional
Colorado
Catherine Monk
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Diana Vagelos Professor of Women’s Mental Health
New York
Amanda Navarro
Convergence Partnership
Executive Director
New York
India Ornelas
Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington
Interim Chair and Professor
Washington
Cynthia Osborne
Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center, Vanderbilt University
Executive Director and Professor of Early Childhood Education and Policy
Tennessee
Stephanie Parra
ALL in Education
Executive Director
Arizona
Juan Peña
CrossPurpose
Co-Founder
Colorado
Erica Phillips
National Association for Family Child Care
Executive Director
New York
Richard Raya
Marin Promise Partnership
CEO
California
Maria Tarajano Rodman
Valley Settlement
Executive Director
Colorado
Cary Waubanascum
University of North Dakota
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Health
Wisconsin
Ascend Fellows are a community of values-driven leaders who share an unwavering commitment to our shared goal of intergenerational family prosperity and well-being.