Alliance for Childhood Board of Trustees, 2009

President: Marilyn Benoit, M.D., Washington, D.C. Child and adolescent psychiatrist, Howard University Hospital; past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Treasurer: Lowell Monke, Ph.D., Springfield, Ohio. Associate professor of education at Wittenberg University; former award-winning computer-science teacher in the Des Moines, Iowa public schools; co-author of Breaking Down the Digital Walls.

Vice President and Secretary: Joan Almon, College Park, Maryland. Executive director of the U.S. Alliance for Childhood; former co-chair of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America; international consultant on early childhood education.

William Crain, Ph.D., New York City. Professor of psychology at the City College of New York; author of Reclaiming Childhood and of Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications; editor of the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice.

Elizabeth Goodenough, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan. Lecturer at the Residential College, University of Michigan; editor of Secret Spaces of Childhood, Where Do the Children Play?, and A Place for Play; originator and project adviser of the PBS documentary “Where Do the Children Play?”

Rosario Villasana-Ruiz, M.A., San Francisco, California. Program Director, Mission Child Development Center at City College of San Francisco; faculty at City College of San Francisco; program director for LifeWays en Español; community programs coordinator for the Caldwell Early Life Center at Rudolf Steiner College.

Alliance Staff

Joan Almon, executive director, joan.almon@verizon.net

Edward Miller, consultant, senior researcher, ed@allianceforchildhood.org

Pamela Lotz, office manager, pam@allianceforchildhood.org

Heidi Biffl, database manager, info@allianceforchildhood.org