Maria Rodman

Maria Rodman is Executive Director of Valley Settlement, a Colorado nonprofit serving immigrant families in the Roaring Fork Valley through two-generation work focused on early childhood development, family economic mobility, community leadership, and access to vital resources.

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