Board of Directors
Our ZERO TO THREE leadership team takes a unique multidisciplinary approach to child development.
They bring together the perspectives of many fields, and their expertise is rooted in all domains of development—social, emotional, intellectual, language, and physical. The ZERO TO THREE management team and Board of Directors work together to promote children’s overall health and well-being in the context of family and culture.
Board Officers
Walter S. Gilliam
President
Tammy Mann
Vice President
Eugene P. Stein
Treasurer
Michael R. Olenick
Chair, Committee on the Board
Board of Directors
Lee Beers
Medical Director, Community Health and Advocacy, Children’s National Hospital
Abel Covarrubias
Founder and CEO, Aprendamos Intervention Team
Felicia DeHaney
Director of Program and Strategy, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Chandra Ghosh Ippen
Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program, University of California, San Francisco
Mary Margaret Gleason
Division Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eastern Virginia Medical School & Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters
Aimee Hilado
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Professor of Psychology, Temple University and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jon Korfmacher
Senior Research Fellow, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS)
Michelle Meyercord
VP of Programs, Dalio Philanthropies
Catherine Monk
Professor, Medical Psychology, Columbia University
Joy Osofsky
Paul J. Ramsay Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans
Helen H. Raikes
Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Child, Youth, and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Michelle Sarche
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Kandace Thomas
Inaugural Executive Director of First 8 Memphis, Memphis and Shelby County
Barbara Thompson
Former Director, Office of Military Family Readiness Policy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
Board Emeritus
Alicia F. Lieberman
Director, Child Trauma Research Program, San Francisco General Hospital
Samuel J. Meisels
Founding Executive Director, University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute
Ann Pleshette Murphy
Parenting Educator and Counselor
Dr. Dolores (Dodie) Norton
Professor Emerita, University of Chicago
Kyle D. Pruett
Yale School of Medicine
Arnold J. Sameroff
Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Jack P. Shonkoff
Founding Director, Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Charles H. Zeanah Jr.
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics , Tulane University School of Medicine
Founding Members
T. Berry Brazelton
(1918-2018)
Selma Fraiberg
(1918-1981)
Stanley I. Greenspan
(1941-2010)
J. Ronald Lally
(1939-2020)
Bernard Levy
(2010)
Reginald S. Lourie
(1908-1988)
Peter B. Neubauer
(1914-2008)
Robert A. Nover
Founding Member
Jeree H. Pawl
(1930-2021)
Sally Provence
(1917-1993)
Julius B. Richmond
(1917-2008)
