Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Katherine Beckmann
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
National Policy Director for Children and Families
California
Chris Bennett
Wonderschool
CEO & Co-Founder
California
Kristin Bernhard
Primrose Schools
Executive Director of Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Advocacy
Georgia
Jamal Berry
Educare, DC
President and CEO
District of Columbia
Reggie Bicha
American Public Human Services Association
President and CEO
Colorado
Matthew Biel
Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN) at Georgetown University
Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
District of Columbia
Mia Birdsong
Next River
Executive Director
California
Nia Bodrick
Children’s National Hospital
General Pediatrician
District of Columbia
Clinton Boyd, Jr.
Chapin Hall & Fathers, Families, & Healthy Communities
Researcher & Executive Director
Illinois
Melanie Bridgeforth
Bridgeforth
Founder and President
Alabama
Laurie Brotman
Department of Population Health NYU School of Medicine
Bezos Family Foundation Professor of Early Childhood Development
New York
Erin Brown
The Colorado Health Foundation
Vice President, Community Investment & Impact
Colorado
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.