Our Team
Mary Walsh
Executive Director, City Connects; Executive Director, Center for Thriving Children; Kearns Professor of Urban Education and Innovative Leadership
Mary E. Walsh, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of City Connects and the Daniel Kearns Professor of Urban Education and Innovative Leadership at the听听at 艾可直播 College. She is the Executive Director of the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children, a research center studying interventions that enhance the academic and healthy development of youth. Dr. Walsh has published and presented widely in the area of school-community supports for schoolchildren and their families. Two of her books are听Children, Health and Learning听补苍诲听Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well-Being听(co-authored with M. Brabeck). She obtained her Ph.D. in听Clinical-Developmental Psychology from Clark University.