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Our Staff Margaret
Blood, President Margaret Blood is the Founder and President of Strategies for Children, Inc., where she oversees the Early Education for All Campaign and related public policy and consulting projects. The goal of the statewide Early Education for All Campaign is to make high-quality early childhood education available to all young children in Massachusetts. Margaret previously led the United Way of Massachusetts Bay's award winning Success By 6 initiative. Under her leadership, key business and civic leaders became advocates for children and several public policy initiatives were enacted to improve the well being of young children. These included making health insurance universally available to children and enacting the Invest in Children license plate to fund improvements in early education and care programs. Prior to Success By 6, Margaret served as the Director of Community Programs for the Department of Pediatrics at Boston City Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine. She also directed a groundbreaking national study, State Legislative Leaders: Keys to Effective Legislation for Children and Families, which examined the attitudes and opinions of state legislative leaders regarding children and families. Among the findings of this highly acclaimed study was the need to involve business leaders as legislative advocates for children and families in their states. Fluent in Spanish, Margaret began her career as a community organizer in inner city Boston where she created an after school program and founded the Mission Possible summer program. She went on to work in the Massachusetts legislature for ten years, first as a legislative aide, and then as founding Executive Director of the Massachusetts Legislative Children's Caucus. Margaret holds a Master in Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has a Bachelor's degree in Spanish and business from Skidmore College. She is particularly passionate about Guatemala where she serves as a volunteer teacher at a school for child workers. In 2007, she founded Mil Milagros, Inc. to help address the pressing health, nutrition and education issues facing children in the Guatemalan Highlands.
Prior to joining EEA, Chad served as the Assistant Director for the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, a nationally-recognized non-partisan research center located at Teachers College, Columbia University. Chad specialized in the study of school choice and public-private partnerships with particular attention given to the role political ideologies play in shaping support for educational reforms. He has published multiple articles on the topics of charter schools, educational vouchers, tuition tax credits, and cyber schooling and is a member of the review board for the Education Policy Analysis Archives. Chad began his career in a education as an English and Global Studies teacher at the Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, NH and as an After School Academy instructor at the Boys’ Club of New York. Chad has a Bachelor’s degree in American studies from Williams College and a Master’s degree in Sociology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is currently working to complete his doctorate in politics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
A committed advocate for children and youth, Titus has worked as a violence prevention educator, a Life Skills instructor with the Providence Public Schools, and a teaching assistant at the Paul Cuffee Charter School in Providence. Most recently Titus has focused his attention toward education policy and program evaluation, researching topics such as the effectiveness of summer enrichment programs and the impact of early childhood professional development on student literacy outcomes. Titus holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and Spanish from the University of Rhode Island and an M.A. in Urban Education Policy from Brown University. In her dual role, Carolyn is responsible for staff, financial, and infrastructure management as well as for developing a broad-based multi-lingual public awareness campaign highlighting the benefits of publicly-funded high-quality early education and the EEA Campaign and legislation. She is also working to develop additional business opportunities for Strategies for Children, Inc. Carolyn has 10+ years of media management and marketing experience in television and internet, both locally and globally. While working at MediaOne/Continental Cablevision, she created and/or consulted with several television networks in a number of markets worldwide. Immediately prior to joining SFC/EEA, Carolyn was VP European Operations for EF Travel, a global travel and cultural affairs company. Carolyn holds a Bachelor's degree in Managerial Finance from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Virginia. Carolyn's studies included work at the University of Heidelberg and the Stockholm School of Economics. Michael McLaughlin, Field Director
Seema Rathod, Research and Policy Analyst Seema holds a B.A. in Economics from Irene Sege, Director of Communications Irene is responsible for developing and implementing a communications strategy that increases public awareness of the critical issues facing young children and their families and builds political support for the policy objectives of Strategies for Children. Prior to joining Strategies for Children in 2009, Irene spent more than a quarter century as an award-winning reporter and editor at the Boston Globe. As a reporter in the city room, Irene covered the Boston schools and education, demographics, and urban affairs. As a writer on the features staff, she often wrote about children and families. Irene also served as an assistant editor of the Globe’s features section. Prior to joining the Globe, Irene edited the award-winning weekly Cambridge Chronicle. She has also taught high school social studies and worked as communications director of a university-based public interest research group. Irene holds a B.A. in history and economics from Smith College and an EdM from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.
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