Katie Albright

Katie Albright is the founding Executive Director of Equity and Excellence in Early Childhood at UC Berkeley, where she leads cross-campus work on early childhood systems, research, policy, and practice. An attorney and children’s advocate, she previously served as CEO and President of Safe & Sound and has worked on child and family well-being, child welfare reform, education, health, and systems change.

Family-Led Models Aim to Scale Child Care, Housing, and Health Supports

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Ascend’s Anne Mosle and parent adviser Carolina Salas framed family policy as a design problem that should start with families’ lived expertise, not agency silos. In a conversation with Maria Rodman, Katie Albright and Laura Migus, they argued that practical models already exist for housing, child care, health care, education and community support, but that scaling them depends on preserving local family leadership and forcing institutions to coordinate around how families actually live.

The Aspen InstituteJun 30, 202618 min read