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
