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
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.