Congressional Caucus
on Maternity Care

Congressional
Pre-K Caucus

Congressional
Mental Health Caucus

Myra Jones-Taylor is the Chief Policy Officer at ZERO TO THREE. She leads the development and implementation of ZERO TO THREE’s policy agenda, including federal and state priorities and strategies.

Laurie Todd-Smith, PhD, director of the Women’s Bureau. Dr. Laurie Todd-Smith of Mississippi was appointed by President Trump to lead the Women's Bureau in October 2019. She brings more than 25 years of experience in education and research to the Women's Bureau. She is the former Executive Director of the State Workforce Investment Board and State Early Childhood Advisory Council in Mississippi.

Linda Smith is the director of Bipartisan Policy Center’s Early Childhood Development Initiative. She most recently served as the deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also directs the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders and leads the UNC SOM and UNC Health Well-Being initiative.

Blessing Adesiyan is the Founder & CEO of Villo, a startup tackling the burnout epidemic and caregiving crisis by offering a remote personal and household manager as a benefit to employees, and of Mother Honestly, a motherhood community and solution-driven platform that propels working women forward.

Katherine Goldstein the creator and host of Double Shift Productions, an independent journalism company. She’s an award-winning journalist who is an expert on working mothers. Katherine’s article in Huffington Post this summer, titled “The Mothers of American Need a Bailout: This Could be The Answer” has struck an urgent cord among mothers and policymakers.