Jodi Grant

Jodi Grant
Born Jodi Grant
March 1968
Flushing, Queens
Education Yale University
Harvard Law School
Occupation Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance

Jodi Grant (born March 1968) is the executive director of the Afterschool Alliance.[1] Prior to joining the Afterschool Alliance, Grant was the director of Work and Family Programs for the National Partnership for Women and Families. She also worked on Capitol Hill as general counsel to the Senate Budget Committee and as staff director for the Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee. Grant frequently appears in national media, including National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, and The New York Times.[2][3][4][5][6]

Early life and education

Grant was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She grew up in Oyster Bay, New York, where she attended Oyster Bay High School. She received her B.A. in Sociology with distinction from Yale University in 1990, where she was elected senior class president. In 1993, Grant received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was elected president (first marshall) of the class of 1993. She also served on the editorial board for the Human Rights Journal.[7] Grant, her husband and two children live in Bethesda, Maryland.[8]

Career

Grant worked as the general counsel for the Democratic Senate Budget Committee from 1994 to 1997. As general counsel, she managed budget bills and reconciliation bills on the Senate floor, coordinated closely with Republican staff of the budget committee to develop and implement legislation, and handling all legal and ethical matters.[8]

From 1997 to 2001, Grant served as the staff director for the Democratic Steering and Coordination Committee, chaired by then-Sen. John Kerry.[9] Her legislative accomplishments include expanded support for the child tax credit, the Children's Health Insurance Program and class size reduction. She also served as liaison to the National Governors' Association, where she worked closely with Republican and Democratic governors.[8]

Following her tenure as a Senate staffer, Grant joined the National Partnership for Women & Families, formerly the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, serving as Director of Work and Family Programs from 2001 to 2005. Grant worked to protect and expand the Family and Medical Leave Act, and was a member of the team that successfully defended the law before the U.S. Supreme Court in Hibbs vs. Nevada Department of Human Resources.[10][11][12][13] Grant also created a national campaign for paid sick days in June of 2004, which included a coalition of more than 100 organizations.[14]

Grant currently serves as executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, where she oversees all aspects of the organization—setting its goals and strategies for policies, including the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; working with the field to help programs tap into private and federal funding streams; and supervising research to help national, state and local afterschool advocates and providers support, create and expand quality afterschool programs. She began her duties as the executive director of the Afterschool Alliance in 2005 and has since been named one of the 25 most influential people in the afterschool field.[8][15]

References

  1. ↑ "Offices & Staff". Afterschool Alliance. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  2. ↑ "Moms Scramble To Find Afterschool Care". National Public Radio. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  3. ↑ "The secret war on afterschool programs". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  4. ↑ "Parents Scramble as Ax Falls on After-School Programs". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  5. ↑ "Fewer Home Alone As Census Sees 39% Drop in Latchkey Kids". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  6. ↑ "It’s 3 O’Clock. You’re at Work. Where Are Your Kids?". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  7. ↑ "Harvard Human Rights Journal, Volume 5, Spring 1992". HeinOnline. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Jodi Grant". National After-School Association. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  9. ↑ "Select and Special Committees of the Senate" (PDF). United States Government Publishing Office. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  10. ↑ Rowe-Finkbeiner, Kristin (2004). The F-word: Feminism in Jeopardy: Women, Politics, and the Future. Seal Press. p. 163-164. ISBN 978-1580051149.
  11. ↑ "Expecting Better: A state-by-state analysis of parental leave programs" (PDF). National Partnership for Women & Families. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "Brief in Opposition, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, No. 01-1368 (U.S 2001)". Georgetown University Law Center. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "Expat adviser: Maternity leave: U.S. vs. Europe". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  14. ↑ "Paid Leave Programs: A Win-Win for Employees and Employers". Work and Family Researchers Network. Retrieved 30 Mar 2015.
  15. ↑ "Top 25 Most Influential People in Afterschool". National AfterSchool Association. Retrieved 16 April 2015.

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