top leaders advise our fellowship
Foster America is proudly supported by a robust advisory board, including luminaries in child welfare and social services, experienced leaders of successful fellowship programs from other sectors, and innovators from the private sector.
Child Welfare and Social Service Leaders
MaryLee Allen, Children's Defense Fund
Mary Bissel, Child Focus
Eric Brettschneider, NYC Administration for Children's Services
Sixto Cancel, Think of Us
Marc Cherna, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Erin Dalton, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Tim Decker, Missouri Children's Division
Jessica Foster, Youth Villages
Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Sue Lohrbach, KVC Institute
Jamia McDonald, Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families
Molly McGrath Tierney, Baltimore City Department of Social Services
Rafael Lopez, Accenture; formerly U.S. Administration on Children, Youth and Families
Ellen Schall, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Carol Spigner, Center for the Study of Social Policy
Leaders of Successful Fellowship Programs
Julie Horowitz, Education Pioneers
Monisha Kapila, ProInspire
Becca Bracy Knight, The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems
Jeff Liebman, Harvard Kennedy School
Katie Sheketoff, Teach for All
Social, Private, & Public Sector leaders
Kahlil Byrd, Forward Progress in Politics and Halcyon Incubator
Marquis Cabrera, Foster Skills, Social Entrepreneur, IBM
Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Tyra Mariani, New America
Marina Martin, New America Public Interest Technology Fellow
Daniel Stephens, McKinsey & Company