Board of Directors

Eleanor Stokes Szanton, Ph.D is a lecturer in the “Department of Population and Family Health Sciences” at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She has an active practice, Consulting for Infants and Toddlers, based in Washington, DC. Dr. Szanton was Executive Director of ZERO TO THREE, The National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and their Families from 1979 to 1993. She was a founding member of the Board of The Family Resource Coalition of America (1982-1990) and of Parent Action. She also serves on the Board of the national organization, Educating Children for Parenting. Dr. Szanton has written extensively on best practice in infant/toddler childcare and on the implications for policy of research on the development of infants and toddlers and their families.