Featured Guests
Bimmer Torres
Lola Adedokun
The Aspen Institute
Marta Alvira-Hammond
Child Trends
Research Scientist
Maryland
Tetiana Anderson
Comcast Newsmakers
Host
District of Columbia
Leah Austin
National Black Child Development Institute
President & CEO
Georgia
Rumeli Banik
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Nelson Barranco
Ascend at the Aspen Institute
Parent Advisor, New Mexico
New Mexico
Randall Baylor
Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN)
Program Lead for Community Engagement
District of Columbia
Marianne Bellesorte
Family Values @ Work
District of Columbia
Miguel (Mike) Bezos
Bezos Family Foundation
Lisa Bohmer
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Director, Global Early Childhood Development
Mayor Muriel Bowser
City of Washington, DC
Mayor
District of Columbia
Justin Brown
Oklahoma Human Services
Secretary
Oklahoma
William (Bill) Bynum
HOPE (Hope Enterprise Corporation and Hope Credit Union)
Chief Executive Officer
Mississippi
Erin Cannon
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, HHS
Social Science Research Analyst
JooYeun Chang
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Program Director for Child Well-Being
Wendy Chun-Hoon
US Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
Christina Church
Maryland Department of Human Services
Maryland
Sen. Susan Collins
U.S. Senate
Maine
January Contreras
Administration for Children and Families
Assistant Secretary
Vinice Davis
Imaginable Futures
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
U.S. House of Representatives
Connecticut
Jason DeParle
New York Times
District of Columbia
Rebecca Dixon
National Employment Law Project
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