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Diane Trister Dodge
Diane Trister Dodge is an early childhood educator, author, and entrepreneur who founded Teaching Strategies and created The Creative Curriculum. What began as a homemade filmstrip and a self-published guide run out of her basement in 1978 grew, over 24 years, into the largest early childhood education publisher in the United States, with materials now reaching more than 15 million children, including roughly 90 percent of Head Start programs. She built her work around a single conviction - that children learn in the context of relationships - and after retiring in 2012 she and her husband Lowell channeled the proceeds into scholarships and programs for children in poverty.
Charles Bonello
Charles Bonello is the co-founder and CEO of Vivvi, a New York-based company reinventing child care and early learning by partnering with employers to make full-time and backup care more accessible and affordable for working families. Before Vivvi, he co-founded Grand Central Tech, one of New York's largest and most selective startup communities, and worked in investment research and venture financing. His work is driven by a conviction that child care is the single biggest pain point for working parents, and he has built Vivvi into a network of NYC campuses backed by $17.2 million in funding.