Advisory Council

Joan Almon
Executive Director
U.S. Alliance for Childhood

William Crain, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
The City College of New York

Stanley C. Finkle, MS
Director, Elementary Education & Languages
North Syracuse Central School District

Kathleen E. Fite, EdD
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Texas State University – San Marcos

Joe Frost, EdD, LHD
Parker Centennial Professor, Emeritus
University of Texas

Walter S. Gilliam, PhD
Assistant Professor, Child Study Center
Director, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale University

Jim Grant
Executive Director
Staff Development for Educators

Carla Horwitz, PhD
Director
Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kitty Lustman-Findling Kindergarten

Sharon Lynn Kagan, EdD
Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy
Co-Director, National Center for Children and Families
Teachers College, Columbia University
Professor Adjunct, Yale University Child Study Center

Ming Li, MD
Professor, Child Neuro-habilitation Clinic
The First Hospital of Peking University

Martha Garcia-Sellers, PhD
Assistant Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Director, Home-School Connection Program
Tufts University

Dorothea Marsden, MEd
Educational Consultant

Sandra Malmquist, PhD
Director
Creating Kids, Creating Curriculum
Connecticut Children’s Museum

Tina Mannarino, PhD
Supervisor, Early Childhood Education
New Haven Public Schools

Linda Mayes, MD
Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Child Study Center
Chairman, Directorial Team
Anna Freud Center, London
Yale University

Rae Pica
Director
Moving & Learning

Rima Shore, PhD
Adelaide Weismann Chair in Educational Leadership
Bank Street College of Education

Dorothy Singer, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Child Study Center
Co-Director, Family Television Research and Consultation Center
Co-Director, Zigler Center Electronic Media and Families Unit
Yale University

Jerome Singer, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Child Study Center
Co-Director, Family Television Research and Consultation Center
Co-Director, Zigler Center Electronic Media and Families Unit
Yale University

Fred Volkmar, MD
Director, Child Study Center
Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Yale University School of Medicine

Updated July 31, 2012