The Council's Staff

Members of the Board

(pictured from left to right) Gayle Cunningham, Dwayne Crompton, Paula Jorde Bloom, Ed Greene, Victoria Fu, Shizuko Akasaki, Ernest Washington, Valora Washington and Yasmina Vinci

Valora Washington | President & CEO

JD Andrews | Chairman Emeritus

Dwayne Crompton | President of the Board

Retired
Kansas City, MO

Ernest D. Washington | Secretary of the Board

Professor | School of Education | University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

Shizuko Akasaki | Treasurer of the Board

Consultant
Alhambra, CA

Paula Jorde Bloom

Founder and Director | McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership | National-Louis University
Wheeling, IL

Roger Brown

President | Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA

Gayle Cunningham

Executive Director | Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity
Birmingham, AL

Linda Espinosa

Member | Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation

Victoria R. Fu

Professor | College of Human Resources & Education | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Blacksburg, VA

Yolanda Garcia

Director | WestED E3 Institute -Excellence in Early Education.

Edward Greene

Senior Educational Consultant | TeachScape and Cito USA
Princeton, NJ

Yasmina S. Vinci

Executive Director | National Head Start Association
Alexandria, VA