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
Systems & Methods, Inc.
Executive Vice President of Operations
Georgia


Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
President and CEO
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.