These prominent experts in child and youth development provide advice to America’s Promise Alliance staff, board and trustees on research and evaluation topics affecting youth.

J. Lawrence Aber - Willner Family Professor in Psychology and Public Policy, New York University

Robert Balfanz - Co-Director, Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University

Brian Barber - Founding Director, Center for the International Study of Youth and Political Violence, and Professor, Child & Family Studies, University of Tennessee

Rick Belous - Vice President, Research, United Way Worldwide

Gary Bowen - Kenan Distinguished Professor, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jomills H. Braddock - Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Miami

Richard F. Catalano - Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence and Director, Social Development Research Group, University of Washington

Michael Conn - Senior Vice President of Research, Educational Research Center of America

Martha Cox - Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Susan Curnan - Professor and Director, Center for Youth and Communities, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Kenneth Dodge - William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University

Greg Duncan - Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of California, Irvine

Constance Flanagan - Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Roberta Golinkoff - Professor, University of Delaware

Robert Grimm - Professor of the Practice, Philanthropy and NonProfit Management, University of Maryland

J. David Hawkins - Kozmetsky Professor of Prevention, Department of Social Work, University of Washington

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek - Professor, Department of Psychology, Temple University

Kelleen Kaye - Senior Director, Research, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Kenneth Land - John Franklin Crowell Professor, Department of Sociology, Duke University

Richard M. Lerner - Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University

Peter Levine - Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University 

Kristin Anderson Moore - Senior Scholar, Child Trends

William O'Hare - Independent Research Professional

David Osher - Vice President, AIR Institute Fellow and Senior Advisor to the Health and Social Development Program, American Institutes for Research

Peter J. Pecora - Managing Director of Research Services, Casey Family Programs

Karen Pittman - President & CEO, The Forum for Youth Investment

Michael D. Resnick - Professor, Pediatric and Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota

Jean Rhodes -  Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston

Isabel Sawhill - Co-Director, Center on Children and Families and Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Peter C. Scales - Senior Fellow, Office of the President, Search Institute

Carl S. Taylor - Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University

Heather Weiss - Director, Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard University

Hirokazu Yoshikawa - Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, New York University

James Youniss - Wylma R. & James R. Curtin Professor Emeritus, The Catholic University of America