Danielle Ewen
Director of Child Care and Early Education Policy Expertise Federal and state child care and early education policies and financing, including child care subsidies and Head Start/Early Head StartMs. Ewen is the Director of the Child Care and Early Education team at CLASP. She works on federal and state issues around child care and early education, particularly the Child Care and Development Block Grant and Head Start. She writes extensively about financing high quality early care and education systems, the federal child care subsidy program and how it affects low-income families, and state and local policies to create and implement high quality early childhood programs. She is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including All Together Now, a research report that examines the implementation of state pre-kindergarten programs in community-based child care settings, several reports on the use of Title I funds for early childhood programs, and analyses of federal and state child care subsidy policies. Prior to CLASP, Ms. Ewen worked at the Children's Defense Fund as a Senior Program Associate in the Child Care and Development Division. She was also the Assistant Director for the National Child Care Information Center. And she worked as a Policy Analyst at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of Migrant Education, where she worked on issues related to implementation of Chapter 1 programs, family literacy, bilingual education and evaluation. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.