Keami Harris
As Chief Equity and Strategy Officer, Keami leads efforts that infuse equity, especially racial equity, across ECFC’s operations, building from the strong and committed base that has already been developed by ECFC’s Steering Committee, Racial Equity Workgroup, Executive Director, and […]
Elizabeth Star
Elizabeth Star (Liz) is a dedicated community advocate for health, education, and social justice issues. She brings visionary leadership in driving systems change by leveraging non-traditional community assets. Her informed advocacy platform and strong cultivation of long-term, trusted relationships with […]
Denise Castillo Dell Isola
Denise Castillo Dell Isola (she/her/hers), J.D., is the Program Director for Early Childhood at the Irving Harris Foundation where she advances the Foundation’s early childhood policy and advocacy agenda in Illinois, and at the multi-state and federal levels. She manages […]
Rebecca Gomez
Rebecca Gomez is a program officer for the Education program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. She leads the Foundation’s grantmaking focused on federal and cross-state early childhood education (ECE) policy and systems-building, with a particular focus on ECE workforce stability, equitable […]
Eric Buchanan
Eric leads the foundation’s efforts to attract new co-investors and partners to join the growing early childhood movement while also representing the foundation in work with existing Educare schools (in Omaha, New Orleans, Kansas City, and Atlanta) as well as […]
Eddie Gale
Eddie Gale is the Vermont Program Director for the A. D. Henderson Foundation. The Henderson Foundation is one of the larger private funders of early care and education and adult-to-child mentoring programs in Vermont. In his role as program director, […]
April Luong
April supports Raising Child Care Fund and ECFC programming. In her most recent position at Overlake Christian Church in Seattle, WA, she managed volunteers, planned events, managed social media, and created and coordinated age-specific content and programming for 150+ children. When […]
Sara Vecchiotti
Dr. Sara Vecchiotti is the Vice President of Research and Program Innovation at the Foundation for Child Development and is responsible for research, program and grant development and monitoring, as well as communications strategies. Prior to this position, Dr. Vecchiotti […]
Rashanda Perryman
Rashanda Perryman is a Program Officer at Vanguard in the Corporate Philanthropy Division. She was former Program Officer at the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. Rashanda has spent 20 years in early learning and has worked her way through […]
Sakinah P. Harrison, MNO
Sakinah P. Harrison is a Program Officer for Education & Learning and Family Economic Security at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role as a member of the Education & Learning and Family Economic Security teams, […]
Gerry Cobb
Gerry Cobb serves as Director of the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, a national initiative of the JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation focused on improved state policy and investment for children prenatal to age three and their families. The focus of […]
Rena L. Large
Rena supports ECFC programming, including virtual and in person events and state and local EC funder network projects. She supports the ECFC early relational health workgroup, and helps build learning experiences across EC topics and programming. For more than 20 […]