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Margaret Blood, President
Strategies for Children, Inc.
mblood@strategiesforchildren.org
617-330-7385
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.
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Kyle DeMeo, Early Childhood Field Director
kdemeo@earlyeducationforall.org
617-330-7383
As the Early Childhood Field Director, Kyle is responsible for building, leading and training an ethnically and racially diverse statewide team of early childhood advocates - including educators and parents - to engage in awareness and advocacy activities in support of young children and their high-quality early education.
Previously, Kyle worked as a teaching assistant in an early education and care program in New York and completed her Master's degree in Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation from Boston College's Lynch School of Education. As a graduate student, Kyle conducted a community needs-assessment for an early education and care provider in Boston to help improve the program's future services.
Kyle holds a Bachelor's degree from Boston College in Human Development with a concentration in Community, Advocacy and Social Policy.
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Chad D'Entremont, Research and Policy Director
cdentremont@earlyeducationforall.org
617-330-7389
Chad oversees the research and policy agenda for the EEA campaign and is responsible for ensuring the effective design and implementation of SFC/EEA policy goals.
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.
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Titus DosRemedios, Research and Policy Associate
tdosremedios@earlyeducationforall.org
617-330-7387
Titus supports the Research and Policy team to ensure the effective implementation of SFC/EEA’s policy goals.
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.
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Carolyn
Lyons, Chief Operating Officer/Director of Strategic Partnerships
clyons@strategiesforchildren.org
617-330-7388
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.
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Diana Meyers, Administrative Director
dmeyers@earlyeducationforall.org
617-330-7385
Diana is responsible for managing the administrative functions of the organization. She is committed to education reform and brings this passion to her work. Prior to joining Strategies for Children, Diana was a Director for a Sylvan Learning Center. She also has extensive experience working with adults with a variety of disabilities. Diana holds a Master’s degree in Education from Eastern Nazarene College.
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Amy
O'Leary, Campaign Director
aoleary@earlyeducationforall.org
617-330-7384
As Director of the Early Education for All (EEA) Campaign, Amy is responsible for managing all advocacy, constituency and awareness building, and policy development to a ensure a statewide system of high-quality early education and care for all children from birth to age 14, beginning with children ages three to five.
The goals of the Campaign include: voluntary, universally accessible, high-quality pre-kindergarten, for every child delivered through a mix of public and private programs; voluntary, universally accessible, high-quality full school-day public kindergarten for every child; and a statewide system to improve the training, education and compensation of the early childhood workforce and building a statewide system of high-quality early education and care for all children beginning at birth.
Amy joined the EEA team in 2002 as the Early Childhood Field Director and served most recently as the Deputy Director. Prior to joining EEA, Amy worked as a preschool teacher and Program Director at Ellis Memorial and Eldredge House, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. Through her work at Ellis Memorial, Amy participated in many community organizations and continues her involvement with the Boston Alliance for Early Education and the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children. Amy is a member of the Children's Defense Fund Emerging Leader Fellowship and adjunct faculty at Wheelock College in Boston.
Amy holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Early Education from Skidmore College and a Master in Public Administration degree from Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University.
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