Community Cultivators Archives - Early Learning Nation

Captain Underpants Is Welcome Here: Carla Hayden’s Vision for Community Hubs

She not only runs the world greatest library. She also keeps a Little Free Library in her office.

Mark Swartz·Apr 22, 2020·4 min read

A librarian right down to her sensible shoes, Dr. Carla Hayden greets visitors to her office in the Library of...

Students Rebuild Inspires Creativity, Builds Global Community for Philanthropy

Meet Leonetta Elaiho—Chief Empowerment Officer

Mark Swartz·Sep 17, 2019·5 min read

From the time she was a young person herself—specifically, a 15-year-old camp counselor in Seattle—Leonetta Elaiho has seen the many...

Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha’s Vision of “What We Can Do Next”

Ambitious Program Rx Kids Works to Eradicate Child Poverty in Flint, Mich., and Beyond

Mark Swartz·Jun 29, 2023·5 min read

What if we let pediatricians run the world? Hear me out.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Child Of Television Explores History – Personal, American and Global – to Illuminate Ancestry, Cultural Influences and Social Justice

Mark Swartz·Feb 15, 2021·6 min read

Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...

Going Big for Our Youngest with Jim Steyer

The Founder of Common Sense Media and Wide Open School

Mark Swartz·Jul 15, 2020·5 min read

Just as Early Learning Nation showcases the ways families, researchers and grassroots nonprofits and organizations are building an early learning...

Building Life-Giving Places with Majora Carter

Mark Swartz·Feb 2, 2022·6 min read

In the 1970s, New York Times delivery trucks didn’t go to neighborhoods like Majora Carter’s.

Of Toddlers and Teenagers: Ellen Galinsky Breaks Through Adolescence with Brain Science and New Book

Mark Swartz·Mar 26, 2024·5 min read

Ellen Galinsky’s The Breakthrough Years is the product of nearly a decade of exploration into the adolescent mind.

More Than Meets the Eye: Jeremiah Program’s Chastity Lord

Mark Swartz·Sep 27, 2023·5 min read

The possibilities are unlimited for the children of single mothers. Just ask President Barack Obama. Vice President Kamala Harris. Ford Foundation president Darren Walker. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Entrepreneur and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Thomas Tull. Comedians like Jon Stewart and Eddie Murphy, performers like Jay-Z and Mariah Carey, athletes like LeBron James, Hope Solo and Alex Rodriguez.