What is Child Care Stories?
Child Care Stories is the culmination of the many roles I have served in since I first began in the field in 2012 as a preschool aide, toddler teacher, in-home caregiver, advocate, policy educator, writer, analyst, and strategist.
With so much uncertainty around how we communicate and connect, Child Care Stories will seek to combine the creation of traditional advocacy materials with new approaches to build public knowledge and promote more compelling and persuasive ways of talking to the public about child care.
Drawing from past success, I will create toolkits, develop talking points, craft op-eds, and draw compelling stories and data from surveys and policy conversations. In the future, I’d like to experiment with zines, livestreams, podcasts, reels, and other unique avenues of connecting on and offline.
In addition to broad messaging strategy, as a former early childhood educator, I want to use my work as a conduit for the stories of child care educators — their passions, struggles, fears, interests, and needs.
I’m eager to build on a track record that I am deeply proud of in securing bipartisan support for child care at the state and federal level, changing the narrative around universal child care from fringe to an urgent necessity in New York State, and linking the promise of access for families directly to the wages and benefits paid to child care educators in the minds of the media and state legislators.
With the start of the new year, I’m crossing my t’s and dotting my i’s in preparation to launch. I’m excited to have you along on this journey!
