Internationally recognized authority in early childhood education; CEO, the Cayl Institute; Founder of Voices for Michigan's Children and the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative; Former Vice President at Antioch College and Faculty Member, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Pioneering Early Childhood Educator who has served in leadership roles at Massachusetts Governor’s School Readiness Commission; Voices for America’s Children; NAEYC; Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development; and the National Head Start Association Commission; Author, Changing the Game for Generation Alpha: Teaching and Raising Young Children in the 21st Century (2021); Co-Author, Ready or Not: Early Care and Education's Leadership Choices—12 Years Later (2019), and Guiding Principles for the New Early Childhood Professional (2017)