Bio
Ellen Galinsky
Ellen Galinsky is co-founder and president of Families and Work Institute (FWI), where she co-directs the National Study of the Changing Workforce, the most comprehensive nationally representative study of the US workforce. She co-directs When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness first funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that has produced a series of research papers. Galinsky has launched the Sloan Awards and conducted the National Study of Employers, a study that has tracked trends in employment benefits, policies, and practices since 1998. She helped establish the field of work and family life while at Bank Street College of Education, where she was on the faculty for 25 years. Her more than 45 books and reports include Mind in the Making, Ask The Children, and The Six Stages of Parenthood. She has published over 125 articles in academic journals, books, and magazines.
Kwesi Rollins
Kwesi Rollins coordinates IEL's portfolio of programs designed to develop and support leaders including the Education Policy Fellowship Program, which operates in 13 states and the District of Columbia; The Cleveland First Ring Superintendent's project which entails development and implementation of a professional development curriculum for school leaders in 15 school districts; the Leadership Learning Community DC Learning Circle Initiative, which connects a diverse group of leadership development practitioners, grant-makers, and thought leaders who identify successful practices, conduct research, evaluate current leadership efforts, and exchange information and tools.
Additionally, Kwesi directs the Early Childhood Community Schools Linkages Project, Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Linkages Project is designed to demonstrate strategic linkages between quality comprehensive early childhood opportunities and effective community schools that lead to better results for vulnerable children, and lay a foundation for success in school and life. Linkages Project pilot sites include Tulsa, OK; Portland, OR and Albuquerque, NM. Prior to the Linkages Project, Kwesi supported the Kellogg Foundation's early childhood initiative, SPARK (Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids), providing assistance in leadership development, parent involvement and community capacity building. Before SPARK, Kwesi supported the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change initiative, an effort designed to develop diverse community leadership that works across boundaries - geographic, racial, cultural, class, or faith - by mobilizing collective action to improve local conditions and the quality of life.
Sterling Speirn
Sterling Speirn is President and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Before joining the Kellogg Foundation in 2006, Mr. Speirn was President of the Peninsula Community Foundation, which serves donors and charitable organizations on the San Francisco Peninsula, and in Silicon Valley. Mr. Speirn is also Founder and Chairman of the Center for Venture Philanthropy, which has launched three Social Venture Funds engaging in the issues of poverty, literacy, and the environment. He is Past Chair of the Board of Directors of Northern California Grantmakers, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Global Philanthropy Forum. In addition, Mr. Speirn is Co-Creator and former Board Member of the "Raising a Reader" program, which now operates nationally in 27 states and has just earned a Fast Company Social Entrepreneurship Award for 2006.
Ruby Takanishi
Ruby Takanishi works in partnership with the Board of Directors and the staff to realize the Foundation's mission. She has a key role in leading the programs and managing the fiscal well-being of the Foundation. From 1986-1996, she was executive director of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. Takanishi has served on several boards including Grantmakers for Education (GFE), Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) and the Board of the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy.
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