Creating provider-driven solutions to the workforce crisis
Who They Are:
The Early Educator Design Team formed in 2022, with ~30 child care providers coming together to design provider-driven solutions to the workforce crisis. The team comes from all corners of the state and fill roles representing all types of child care in Washington.
Their Vision:
All families – beginning with those most in need – have access to affordable, quality early care and education opportunities.
Leading Washington on Policy Solutions
- 2022: The Design Team begins, spending a full year listening and learning from each other about the different struggles facing providers across Washington
- 2022: Platform for Child Care: The Design Team creates their provider-driven policy solutions to support educators in all parts of the child care system
- 2023: Recommendations: The Design Team works with with CCA of WA and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to create recommendations around fully funding a Cost of Quality Care Rate Model
Meet the Early Educator Design Team
Angelia Hicks-Maxie
Child Care Center CEO, Seattle
Anne Granberg
Child Care Center Director, Bellingham
Autumn Causey
Family Child Care Owner, Cosmololis
Ayan Mohamed
Berta Artiga
Family Child Care Owner, Pasco
Simantini Dutta
Child Care Center Teacher, Wenatchee
Caitlin Voss
Child Care Center Director, Langley
Cecilia Gonzalez
Family, Friend and Neighbor Caregiver, Yakima
David Mayer
Seattle
Desiree Hall
Child Care Center Owner & Director, Seattle
Elodia Gutierrez
Child Care Center Owner & Director, Pasco
Erica Linear
Child Care Center Owner & Director, Seattle
Gloria Vasquez
Family Child Care Owner, Wenatchee
Janice Bates
Family Child Care Owner, Renton
Jen Sandvig
Child Care Center Director, Pasco
Julia Fulton
Port Ludlow
Julie Worall
Family Child Care Owner, Battle Ground
Kathryn Yates
Puyallup
Lidia Tadlla
Federal Way
Lisa Cates
Pullman
Lorena Miranda
Family Child Care Owner, Yakima
Mary Curry
Family Child Care Owner, Tacoma
Mona Gomez Cabrera
Lakewood
Nimo Farah
Reshonna Reynolds
Center Teacher, Seattle
Sara Escobar
Child Care Center Assistant Director, Lynnwood
Susan Lee
Child Care Center Director, Seattle
Tasha Fitzgerald
Child Care Center Teacher, Port Angeles
Teresa Winslow
Child Care Center Executive Director, Olympia
Tim Vo
Arlington
Tony Lozano
Child Care Center Owner, Pasco
Morgan Chesley
Child Care Center Director, Tumwater
What's Next?
Advocating for Increased Compensation
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