Washington D.C., June 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — After a six-month-long search, the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) is proud to announce the hiring of Erica Phillips as its new executive director and the professional ready to lead the nonprofit into the next era of home-based care.
Phillips will take the post in mid-July.
The search committee, headed Dr. Ellaine Miller, NAFCC Board president-elect, and Dr. Valora Washington, NAFCC Board vice president, was key to finding the best fit for the position.
“On behalf of the NAFCC Board and thousands of members, we are excited to have such an exceptional, caring and qualified leader to represent over 1 million family child care providers and their national impact on early care and education,” said Dr. Louis Finney, Jr., NAFCC board chairman. “We are united toward our selection and her success!”
Phillips, who holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and an M.Ed. and MBA in education policy from Stanford University, comes to NAFCC from All Our Kin, a Connecticut-based national nonprofit supporting and training family child care providers. Serving as president and Chief Impact Officer there since 2014, she has led All Our Kin into new markets and is responsible for strong program implementation across multiple sites and ensuring fidelity to its nationally recognized model for improving availability and quality of home-based child care.
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