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            Former and Current Members

SWATI ADARKAR
Consultant, Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force
MILLIE ALMY
Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, UC Berkeley and Developmental Psychologist
MARTA ALQUIJAY, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Parent Educator
GLENNA BOLTUCH AVILA
Director, Community Arts Partnership Program, California Institute of the Arts
CANDACE BARRETT
Director; Los Angeles Children's Museum
RUTH BEAGLEHOLE
Director, Teen Parenting & Child Care Program, L.A. Technology Center, LAUSD
JEAN REISS BERLFEIN
Early Childhood Media Specialist
MARSHA BERMAN
Children's Recording Artist and Producer
RUTH BOWMAN
Art Historian and Museum/Media Consultant
RAY BRADBURY
Writer
BETSY BROWN
Puppeteer and Former Associate Professor, Art Department, California State University Northridge
WARREN CHRISTENSEN
Consultant of the Los Angeles Festival
SERENNA DAY
Former Manager, Children's Literature Department, Los Angeles Central Library
LAURA ESCOBEDO
Executive Director; Alliance of Businesses for Childcare Development
PEGGY FUNKHOUSER
President, L.A. Educational Partnership
JANINE GOODALE
Manager, Children's Literature Department, Los Angeles Central Library
JUDITH HAUT
Folklorist and Folklore in Education Consultant, UCLA
ROSE HONDA
Site Supervisor, Child Development Department at Santa Monica Unified School District, Retired
ESTHER HOVEY
Former Professor, Early Childhood Education, California State University Long Beach
JOAN KAISER
Public Relations Executive
 
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HELEN KLEINBERG
Commissioner, L.A. County Children's Services Commission
NANCY LAPPEN
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
ELLEN LEHMAN
Psychologist and Psychoanalyst and Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA
CAROL MERRILL-MIRSKY, Ph.D
Director/Curator, Hollywood Bowl Museum, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
LINDA MICKELL
Collector
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE
Artist and Former Director, Watts Towers Art Center
NEIL POSTMAN
Professor, Communication Arts & Sciences, NYU
MARJORIE ROGERS
Multi-Cultural Educational Consultant, Washington
SOCORRO SERRANO
Public Information Officer, LAUSD
ESTELLE LADER SHANE
Assistant Professor, Clinical Faculty, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA
BRIAN SUTTON-SMITH
Developmental Psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Education and Folklore University of Pennsylvania
MICHAEL SPOCK
Vice-President for Public Programs, Museum of Natural History, Chicago
SYBIL STOLLER
Community Activist
SHEILA TEPPER
President/Founder of CHEER and Executive Producer of Backstage L.A.
ILENE VAL ESSEN, M.F.C.C
Founder of Quality Parenting Program
JILL VEXLER
Cultural Anthropologist and Museum Education Program Consultant, N.Y.
MARY WORTHINGTON
Director of Public Education, Japanese-American National Museum
ERIC LLOYD WRIGHT
Architect
DEBORAH WYLE
Founding Principal, The Oaks School
DOCIA ZAVITKOVSKY
Child Development Specialist
EDWARD ZIGLER, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University and Founder, Headstart
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