Working Families Policy Summit Partners
Working Families Policy Summit 2009
Advocates & Provocateurs
Catherine Atkin
Executive Director
Preschool California
www.preschoolcalifornia.org
Nancy Berlin
Director
California Partnership
www.communitychange.org
Camille Bussette
Vice President
Earned Assets Resource Network (EARN)
www.sfearn.org
Alice Bussiere
Staff Attorney
Youth Law Center
www.ylc.org
Olivia Calderon
Legislative Director
New America Foundation
www.newamerica.net
Ronald E. Coleman
Legislative and Policy Director
California Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
www.acorn.org
Netsy Firestein
Executive Director
Labor Project for Working Families
www.working-families.org
Lenny Goldberg
Executive Director
California Tax Reform Association
www.caltaxreform.org
Scott Graves
Senior Policy Analyst
California Budget Project
www.cpb.org
Stefan Harvey
Assistant Director
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
www.publichealthadvocacy.org
Kenneth Hecht
Executive Director
California Food Policy Advocates
www.cfpa.net
Mike Herald
Legislative Advocate
Western Center on Law and Poverty
www.wclp.org
Ed Howard
Senior Counsel
Children’s Advocacy Institute
www.caichildlaw.org
Mary Ignatius
Statewide Organizer
Parent Voices
www.rrnetwork.org
Fran Kipnis
Principal Policy Analyst
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley
www.irle.berkeley.edu/cscce
Elizabeth Landsberg
Legislative Advocate
Western Center on Law and Poverty
www.wclp.org
Amy Lemley
Policy Director
John Burton Foundation for Children Without Homes
www.johnburtonfoundation.org
Ted Lempert
President
Children Now
www.childrennow.org
Paul A. Leonard
California Director
California Office of the Center for Responsible Lending
www.responsiblelending.org
George Manalo-LeClair
Senior Director of Legislation
California Food Policy Advocates
www.cfpa.net
Marty Martinez
Policy Director
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)
www.cpehn.org
James Mayer
Executive Director
California Forward
www.caforward.org
Beth McGovern
Legislative Director
California Commission on the Status of Women
www.women.ca.gov
Frank Mecca
Executive Director
County Welfare Directors Association
www.cwda.org
Holly Mitchell
CEO
Crystal Stairs, Inc.
www.crystalstairs.org
Dr. Carmen Rita Nevarez
Vice President of External Relations
Public Health Institute
www.phi.org
Sherry Novick
Executive Director
First 5 Association of California
www.f5ac.org
Ann O’Leary
Executive Director
Berkeley Center for Health, Economic & Family Security at U.C. Berkeley School of Law
law.berkeley.edu
Stuart Oppenheim
Executive Director
Child and Family Policy Institute of California
www.cfpic.org
Mark Paul
Deputy Director
New American Foundation
www.newamerica.net
Jennifer Peck
Executive Director
Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth
www.bayareapartnership.org
Jean Ross
Executive Director
California Budget Project
www.cbp.org
Lori Saldaña
Assembly Member
California State Assembly
www.asm.ca.gov
Rusty Selix
Executive Director
California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies
www.cccmha.org
Julie Snyder
Policy Director
Housing California
www.housingca.org
Nancy Strohl
Executive Director
Child Care Law Center
www.childcarelaw.org
Laurie True
Executive Director
California WIC Association
www.calwic.org
Anthony Wright
Executive Director
Health Access California
www.health-access.org
Christopher Wu
Supervising Attorney
Center for Families, Children & the Courts in the California Administrative Office of the Courts
www.jud.ca.gov
Co-Sponsoring Nonprofit Organizations
9 to 5, Nationa Association of Working Women, Bay Area Chapter
www.9to5.org
Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women
www.alamedacsw.org
American Cancer Society, California Division, Inc.
www.cancer.org
Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth
www.bayareapartnership.org
Berger Institute for Work, Family & Children
www.cmc.edu
CA Council of Community Mental Health Agencies
www.cccmha.org
CA Women Lead
www.cawomenlead.org
California ACORN
www.acorn.org
California Association for the Education of Young Children
www.caeyc.org
California Association of Food Banks
www.cafoodbanks.org
California Association of Nonprofits
www.canonprofits.org
California Center for Public Health Advocacy
www.publichealthadvocacy.org
California Center for Responsible Lending
www.responsiblelending.org
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network
www.rrnetwork.org
California Childcare Health Program
www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org
California Coalition for Youth
www.calyouth.org
California Commission on the Status of Women
www.women.ca.gov
California Council of Churches
www.calchurches.org
California Dietetic Association
www.dietitian.org
California Food Policy Advocates
www.cfpa.net
California Forward
www.caforward.org
California Head Start Association
www.caheadstart.org
California Nevada Community Action Partnership
www.cal-neva.org
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
www.cpehn.org
California Partnership
www.communitychange.org
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
www.cpedv.org
California Primary Care Association
www.cpca.org
California School Age Consortium
www.calsac.org
California School Health Centers Association
www.schoolhealthcenters.org
California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness
www.wellnesstaskforce.org
California WIC Association
www.calwic.org
California Women’s Foundation
www.womensfoundca.org
California Youth Empowerment Network
www.ca-yen.org
Center for Collaborative Planning
www.connectccp.org
Center for Collaborative Solutions
www.ccscenter.org
Child & Family Policy Institute of CA
www.cfpic.org
Child Action, Inc.
www.childaction.org
Child Care Food Program Roundtable
www.ccfproundtable.org
Child Care Law Center
www.childcarelaw.org
Children Now
www.childrennow.org
Children’s Advocacy Institute
www.caichildlaw.org
CMA Foundation
www.thecmafoundation.org
Community Voices
www.communityvoices.org
Contra Costa Child Care Council
www.cocokids.org
County Welfare Directors Association
www.cwda.org
Crystal Stairs
www.crystalstairs.org
Dental Health Foundation
www.dentalhealthfoundation.org
Equal Rights Advocates, Inc.
www.equalrights.org
First Five Association of California
www.f5ac.org
Health Access California
www.health-access.org
Housing California
www.housingca.org
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
www.insightcced.org
John Burton Foundation
www.johnburtonfoundation.org
Labor Project for Working Families
www.working-families.org
Latino Coalition for a Health California
www.lchc.org
Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center
www.las-elc.org
Lutheran Office of Public Policy - California
www.lutheranpublicpolicyca.org
Mental Health Association in California
www.mhac.org
Mom’s Rising
www.momsrising.org
National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter
www.naswca.org
New America Foundation
www.newamerica.net
Parent Voices
www.parentvoices.org
Preschool California
www.preschoolcalifornia.org
Prevent Child Abuse California
www.pca-ca.org
Public Health Institute
www.phi.org
Racial & Ethnic Mental Health Disparities Coalition
www.mhac.org
Teen NOW California
www.cacsap.org
U.S. Department of Labor, Women’s Bureau (Region IX)
www.dol.org
Western Center on Law and Poverty
www.wclp.org
Youth Law Center
www.ylc.org
