Kristen is the Director, Coordinating Child Care and Part C for the Policy Center.
Kristen joined ZERO TO THREE in May 2016, after serving as an Early Childhood Education Specialist, under a federal Race to the Top – EC grant, at the RI Department of Education. Kristen holds a doctorate in early childhood, family and literacy studies and brings a wide range of additional professional experience focused on young children’s development. These experiences include positions as an early childhood special education teacher, child care center administrator, higher education faculty member, infant and early childhood consultant, and Early Head Start Infant Toddler training and technical assistance specialist. She has expertise in social-emotional development and disabilities, early care and education, and effective ECE professional development and systems that support practice change.
