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Board of Directors

Directors
Matthew P.d. Brown
co-CEO and co-Founder
big BANG Ideas, LLC
Emeryville, CA

Renatta Cooper
Education Coordinator
Los Angeles County Office of Child Care
Los Angeles, CA

Crystal L. Elliott
Director
Dr. Effie O. Ellis Head Start Training Center
Chicago, Illinois

Judith Ellis
Professor and Chair of the Toy Design Department
Fashion Institute of Technology
New York, NY

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James E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor, Early Childhood Education
Penn State University
State College, PA

Chuck Scothon
Senior Vice President
Fisher Price Brands, Inc.
East Aurora, NY

Jerome Singer, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Child Study, Emeritus
Yale University / New Haven, CT

Sheridan Turner
President
Kohl Children's Museum / Wilmette, IL


Executive Director:
Susan J. Oliver


Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present concerns. It is also his most significant tool for preparing himself for the future and its tasks.

--Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist


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