Advisory Council
Stanley C. Finkle, MS
Director, Elementary Education
North Syracuse Central School District
Kathleen E. Fite, EdD
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Texas State University – San Marcos
Martha Garcia-Sellers, PhD
Assistant Professor,Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Director, Home-School Connection Program
Tufts University
Walter S. Gilliam, PhD
Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study Center
Director, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale University
Carla Horwitz, PhD
Director
Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kitty Lustman-Findling Kindergarten
Sharon Lynn Kagan, EdD
Co-Director
National Center for Children and Families Teachers College, Columbia University
Ming Li, MD
Professor, Child Neuro-habilitation Clinic
The First Hospital of Peking University
Tina Mannarino, PhD
Supervisor, Early Childhood Education
New Haven Public Schools
Dorothea Marsden, MEd
(Member Emeritus)
Educational Consultant
Author of Work Sampling and OUNCE Scale
Linda Mayes, MD
Yale Child Study Center
Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Rae Pica
Director
Moving & Learning
Rima Shore, PhD
Adelaide Weismann Chair in Educational Leadership
Bank Street College of Education
Jerome Singer, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Yale Child Study Center
Co-Director, Family TV Research and Consultation Center
Fred Volkmar, MD
Director, Child Study Center
Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology
Yale University School of Medicine
Mary Lee Weber
Director of Business Development
Cashman & Katz Integrated Communications
In Memory Of
Dorothy Singer, PhD (1927-2016)
Senior Research Associate, Yale Child Study Center
Co-Director, Family TV Research and Consultation Center
Jim Grant (1942-2016)
Executive Director
Staff Development for Educators
Suzy Ferree, MS, MA
National Lecture Staff Advisory Council
Gesell Institute of Child Development
Norman Heimgartner, EdD (1930-2019)
Gesell Institute National Lecture Staff and Ambassador Since 1968
Joan Almon
Founding Director
U.S. Alliance for Childhood
Joe Frost, EdD, LHD
(Member Emeritus)
Parker Centennial Professor, Emeritus
University of Texas
Gesell International Ambassadors
Kathleen E. Fite, EdD
Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Texas State University – San Marcos