Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows
Anthony Barrows
LIFT - New York
Executive Director
New York
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
Uju Berry
NYC Health + Hospitals Domestic Violence Mental Health Initiatives & NYU Langone Medical Center
Medical Director, Domestic Violence Mental Health Initiatives
New York
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
Lelaine Bigelow
Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
Executive Director
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
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.