Sherri Killins Stewart, EdD is the director of State Systems Alignment and Integration and co-director of State Services for the BUILD Initiative and an independent consultant.
Sherri Killins Stewart, EdD is the director of State Systems Alignment and Integration and co-director of State Services for the BUILD Initiative and an independent consultant. Within her BUILD Initiative work, she is responsible for working directly with state leaders to advance early childhood systems efforts in health, early learning, and family support. She is leading work to define and create intentional practice regarding equity in early childhood system practice, policy, and leadership within the BUILD Initiative. Her equity work includes co-leading a network of early childhood leaders to advance racial equity. Dr. Stewart has worked at multiple levels and in a variety of states and communities. Dr. Stewart's former positions include Commissioner of Early Education and Care for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vice President of Human Development and Operations at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and CEO of Empower New Haven
Sherri Killins Stewart
The BUILD Initiative congratulates Nikole Hannah-Jones on her Pulitzer Prize. In this video, she speaks on race and racism at the BUILD Initiative #QRIS2019 conference with Dr. Sherri Killins Stewart.
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Sherri Killins shares her experience and research about how to effectively communicate the need for investments in early learning and how to build political support in the current economic climate. This session addressees state challenges and strategies and will explore how BUILD can help.
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This slide deck supports the preconference session titled Leading for Equitable Early Childhood Systems at the 2018 QRIS National Meeting
Read moreHOPE (Harnessing Opportunities for Positive Early Childhood) helps state leaders work together, across sectors and with families and local providers, to transform places marginalized by inequality into areas of high opportunity.
Read moreThe BUILD Initiative’s Equity Leaders Action Network (ELAN) is a leadership program funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Ballmer Group. The ELAN was created to address four challenges in early childhood programs, entities, and organizations: racism, fragmentation, lack of beneficiary voice, and absence of policy leadership intentionally committed to racial equity.
Read moreThe Equity Action Framework is designed to support individuals and groups that want to advance racial equity in early childhood systems. The goal of a racial equity approach is to develop policies, practices, and programs that provide opportunity, promote fairness and access, and remediate racial inequities.
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