URBAN INSTITUTE
Expert

My interest in child care started early, when I took care of infants in a child care center and did home visits with low-income Latino families in Austin, Texas. Those experiences allowed me to see firsthand the often heartbreaking challenges and trade-offs that low-income families face in trying to provide their children with a strong start. Subsequently, my passion has been to make our child care and early childhood systems work better for these families. I work to bring the complexities of real people’s lives to the policy debate and to translate them into pragmatic policy solutions that make sense for families as well as for the policymakers, practitioners, and service providers working on their behalf.
Media Mentions
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June 25, 2019
Lillian Mongeau
May 10, 2019
Kayla Butler
March 5, 2019
Colby Itkowitz
December 31, 2018
Sophie Quinton (Stateline)
December 9, 2016
Jonnelle Marte
April 29, 2015
Jonelle Marte
April 22, 2015
Charles D. Ellison
February 2, 2015
Zachary A. Goldfarb and Juliet Eilperin
June 23, 2014