who we are
Senior Advisors
Nancy Carlsson-Paige Diane Levin Co-Directors Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin Blakely Bundy Director of Early Childhood Organizing Denisha Jones Director of Communications and Social Media Gina Contursi National Advisory Board Sherry Cleary Bill Crain Stephanie Feeney Doris Pronin Fromberg Ayla Gavins Marcy Guddemi Michelle Gunderson Denisha Jones Edgar Klugman Deborah Meier Ruth Rodriguez-Fay James St. Clair Judith Van Hoorn Founding National Advisory Board Members Constance Kamii Lilian Katz Maurice Sykes |
Defending the Early Years (DEY) is a non-profit organization working for a just, equitable, and quality early childhood education for every young child. DEY publishes reports, makes mini-documentaries, issues position statements, advocates on policy, and has an active website full of resources, blogs, and activist steps for early childhood educators.
DEY's Co-Directors are Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin and Blakely Bundy. Geralyn is the founder of Empowered by Play and is currently an early childhood teacher at the Mission Hill School in Boston, MA. Blakely is Director Emeritus and Senior Advisor to The Alliance for Early Childhood on the North Shore of Chicago, where she previously was its Executive Director for twenty-five years. Senior Advisors:
Members of the DEY National Advisory Board:
Members of the Founding National Advisory Board
Defending the Early Years is a non-profit, educational, charitable organization, holding 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. |