About

Board of Directors

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Nona Beth Cresswell

Board Member

Montessori teacher; founder and director, Jubilee Children’s House



Jomo Kassaye

Board Member

Program Manager, Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program, Howard University


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Marsha Shiff

Board Member

Board Member, Former DC business owner, Dalton Brody


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Leslie Oberdorfer, MA

Board Member

Artist; former consultant to Head Start Alexandria and to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services



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Frank Moore

Board Member

TreasurerAttorney, SmithBucklin; Washington representative for a national childcare providers association.


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Gretchen McKnew

Board Member

SecretaryLCSW, therapist in independent practice, founder of The Garden, a Jubilee childcare center (1989-2001).


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Elizabeth Hersh, MSW, MD

Board Member

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, in private practice; on the faculty of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis.


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Gilbert Hernandez

Board Member

Vice President, Sales Director, DC East Region, PNC Bank


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Linda Eggbeer

Board Member, M.Ed

Former director of Professional Development at ZERO TO THREE


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Joe Collier

Board Member

ChairDirector Office of Cooperative Programs, OSHA (retired); minister


Ann Barnet, MD

Ann Barnet, MD

Board Member

Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics,  Emeritus at George Washington University School of Medicine, Neurologist and EEG Evoked Response Laboratory Director (retired) at Children’s Hospital of Washington, D.C., author, with Richard Barnet of The Youngest Minds: Parenting and Genes in the Development of Intellect and Emotion, Founder of The Family Place, a family support center for low-income expectant parents and families of young children.


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Gail C. Arnall, Ph.D.

Board Chair

Executive Director of Offender Aid and Restoration, serving Arlington, Alexandria, and Falls Church,VA


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Reginald Wilson, Ph.D.

Clinical & Educational Psychologist; Senior Scholar Emeritus, American Council on Education

Clinical & Educational Psychologist; Senior Scholar Emeritus, American Council on Education