Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood
Jane Andrias, Educational Consultant
Elaine Avidon, Inst. for Literacy Studies, CUNY
Elinor Barr, Kingsborough College, CUNY
Calley Bittle, Teacher, Ella Baker
Jerome Bruner, NYU School of Law
Suzanne Carothers, NYU
Edward Chittenden, ETS emeritus
Cecilia Espinosa, Lehman College, CUNY
Carol Foresta, Progressive Ed. Network of NY
Margery Franklin, Sarah Lawrence College
Judith Gold, Bank Street College
Sharon Lynn Kagan, Teachers College
Augusta Kappner, Bank Street College
Tovah Klein, Barnard Center for Toddler Dev.
Yeou-Cheng Ma, Children’s Orchestra Society
Deborah Meier, NYU
Samuel Meisels, Erikson Institute
Ed Miller, Alliance for Childhood
Vivian Paley
Frances Rust, NYU
Yvonne Smith, Central Park East 1
Cecelia Traugh, Long Island University
Maria Velez-Clark, Children’s Wkshop School
Eleanor Greig Ukoli, NYC Dept. of Early Ed.
Mark Weiss, Operation Respect
Peter Yarrow, Operation Respect

The U.S. Alliance for Childhood, a nonprofit partnership of educators, health professionals, and other advocates for children, has worked since 1999 to encourage research on and raise public awareness of critical issues affecting children’s health and well-being, and has been responsible for extensive national press attention and public policy debates on technology and children, the impact of high-stakes testing, and the importance of child-initiated play in healthy development.

New York Voices of Childhood was initiated by faculty members in a number of universities in the New York City area based on a call to come together by Deborah Meier of NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education. They were soon joined by a core of early childhood teachers and other advocates and students of early childhood, all of whom are now engaged in this campaign.