Advisors

Ginny Clark

BookStart Fund Director and Co-Founder

Maureen I. Grinsfelder

Former Executive Director of Questa Education Foundation

Becky Hill

Past Executive Director of MLK Montessori School and of Fort Wayne YWCA, FWCS Board, English teacher, retired.

Greta McKinney, MS Edu.

Executive Director, MLK Montessori School

Odelet Nance, PhD

Assistant Dean of Instruction-Early College Programs for Northeast Indiana, Vincennes University

John Peirce

Consultant to the Big Goal Collaborative for early learning collaborations
Consultant to United Way of Allen County for public policy, Peirce Consulting LLC

Dr. Terri Jo Swim

Professor of Early Childhood Education Associate Dean, College of Education & Public Policy, IPFW
Author of Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers: Caregiving and Responsive Curriculum Development

Dee Szyndrowski

Chief Executive Officer, SCAN, Inc.

Susan Trent

Attorney, Rothberg Law

Mary Voors

Manager of Children’s Services, Allen County Public Library

Dana Wichern

BookStart Co-founder, FWCS curriculum development/Language Arts and Mathematics national standards, retired