Rhian Evans Allvin
Chief Executive Officer

Rhian Evans Allvin serves as the chief executive officer of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a position she has held since August 2013. She is responsible for guiding the organization’s strategic direction as well as overseeing daily operations.   Read more »

Marica Cox Mitchell
Deputy Chief Executive, Early Learning Systems 

Marica Mitchell is NAEYC's Deputy Chief Executive, Early Learning Systems. In this role, Mitchell  is responsible for NAEYC’s major program efforts in early childhood program and higher education accreditation. She is also leading the alignment among and between our Center for Applied Research, accreditation, and higher education with early childhood and higher education systems across the country. Read more  »  

Jill Stasz Harris
Deputy Chief Executive, Finance & Operations

Jill Stasz Harris is NAEYC's Deputy Chief Executive, Finance and Operations. Jill's work centers on advancing NAEYC as a strong and high performing organization via functional alignment and support of vision, strategy, and action. Her 30 years of leadership experience encompass strategy, finance, operations, and management across the public and private sectors. Read more  »

Nancy Griswold
General Counsel and Assistant Secretary

Nancy Griswold is NAEYC's General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. She serves as a member of NAEYC's Executive Team and leads the delivery of a full range of legal services in support of NAEYC’s mission — including governance, tax, accreditation, publishing, data security, technology, grants, and fundraising.   Read more  »  

Nicole Zuchetto
Senior Director, Member Experience and Market Solutions

Nicole Zuchetto is NAEYC’s Senior Director for Member Experience and Market Solutions.  In her role she provides the vision, strategy and implementation for the teams managing membership, conferences and meetings, marketing and creative services, customer care, direct sales, and development. Read more  »  

Susan Friedman
Senior Director, Publishing and Professional Learning

Susan Friedman is NAEYC's Senior Director of Publishing and Professional Learning. In this role she leads the content development work of NAEYC’s books and periodicals publishing, digital content, and professional learning teams. Read more  »

Gwen A. Simmons
Senior Director, Affiliate Relations
 
Gwen A. Simmons is NAEYC’s Senior Director of Affiliate Relations. In this role she is responsible for designing and implementing the NAEYC Affiliate Relations Program that includes coordinating liaison activities with NAEYC’s network of affiliates and coordinating the development of strategic planning efforts. Read more  »

Stephanie Olmore
Senior Director, Global Engagement

Stephanie Olmore is NAEYC’s Senior Director of Global Engagement. She spearheads all Global efforts. NAEYC works with international governments, top-level delegations and other large-scale systems to create guidelines to support early learning, as well as to support early childhood professionals throughout the world. Read more  »

Kim Harper
Special Assistant to the CEO/Board Administrator

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