BUILD Initiative is a national organization supporting state leaders to develop early childhood systems that are comprehensive, high quality, and accessible to each and every family. The second season -- Leading for Equity -- focuses on how state leaders have used their roles, responsibilities and influence to intentionally increase opportunity and remove barriers for children and families. Host, Dr. Sherri Killins Stewart, explores tangible ways leaders are centering the perspectives of Black, Native American, Latino, and other populations marginalized by the programs and services within the early childhood system.
Our first episode is out August 23.
For more information, visit us at buildinitiative.org
Dr. Sherri Killins Stewart:
I'm Dr. Sherri Killins Stewart, your host for this season of Critical Connections: Leading for Equity, a podcast from the BUILD Initiative. At BUILD, we support state leaders in their mission to serve young children and their families. I work directly with state leaders to create policies, infrastructure, and working relationships that advance early childhood systems.
Megan Waltz: The way that you build more relationship is to be a trusted partner. And the way that you build trust is to listen and then to act upon what has been said.
Killins Stewart: How are leaders tangibly centering the needs of Black, Native American, Latina and Latino, and other children who have been marginalized by systems, programs, and services?
Fannie Glover: Those who are going to be impacted by the practice or the policy, they must be at the table, not as just a source, but as co-creators of solutions.
Killins Stewart: Follow Critical Connections wherever you find your podcasts. Produced by LWC Studios for the BUILD Initiative.