ABOUT US
We’re a network of diverse organizations brought together by our passion for building an equitable child care system that works for everyone. A broad cross-section of child care leaders dissatisfied with how child care in America doesn’t work for those who need it most agreed it was time for a new kind of justice-centered collaboration, and the Network was born.

We seek a transformed national-to-state system that results in universal access to equitable, accessible, high-quality, affordable, and culturally relevant child care across the U.S. with a diverse, well-paid, and well-supported workforce.
Parent/Family and Provider Working Groups collaborate closely with the Coordinating Committee to ensure the voices of those most directly involved drive the Network's overall direction.
Four Working Groups—Communications + Narrative Strategies, Federal + State Policy Strategies, Base Building + Field Mobilization, and Research Strategies—support the development and execution of different core strategic domains of work.
- Rachel Ramirez, Erin Moore, Shereese Rhodes, and Kristel England (UPLAN)
- Danielle Atkinson (Mothering Justice)
- Keisha Nzewi (CA Resource and Referral Network)
- Lucy Recio (NAEYC)
- Julie Kashen (The Century Foundation)
- Whitney Pesek (National Women’s Law Center)
- Courtney Verronneau (Family Forward Oregon)
- Tiffany Ferrette and Christine Johnson-Staub (CLASP)
- Maisha Cole (Child Care Law Center)
- Danielle Atkinson (Mothering Justice)
- Erika Washington (Make It Work Nevada)
- Jill Appelgate (National Women’s Law Center)
- Nina Perez (MomsRising)
- Sade Moonsammy (Family Values @ Work)
- Leng Leng Chancy (9 to 5)
- Dominique Countee (Community Change)
Working group leads to come.
Over the course of the planning process this group has included 9to5*, The Center for American Progress*, The Century Foundation, The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)*, Child Care Aware® of America, Child Care Law Center (CA)*, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network*, Community Change*, ECE Organizing Network*, Family Forward Oregon*, Family Values @ Work*, Make it Work Nevada*, MomsRising/MamásConPoder, Mothering Justice (MI)*, National Association for the Education of Young Children*, National Women’s Law Center*, Parent Voices (CA)*, Service Employees International Union, United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN)*, ZERO TO THREE*.
*Member of Reconfigured Group After Feedback Sessions with 60 State and Local Leaders
Member organizations participate within Working Groups and prioritize child care, while allies support the Network's purpose, approach, and values and take targeted action.

Join us in our work for universal, equitable, accessible, high-quality, affordable, and culturally relevant child care across the U.S.:
In our first three years, we will build a shared political analysis and long-term strategic pathway to achieve our ultimate purpose—one that aligns and builds power at and across local, state, and national campaign efforts to achieve shared nationwide policy demands.

Six core principles guide the way we work:
Join us in our work for universal, equitable, accessible, high-quality, affordable, and culturally relevant child care across the U.S.: