February 2023 Newsletter

Meet Our New Board Members & Officers
We are proud to recognize these individuals as 2023 Community Leadership Award Honorees, who will be recognized during the Awards Luncheon at our 4th Annual Culturally Responsive Early Education & Care Leadership Summit on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.

Thank you to Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning for your $125,000 Community Transformation Grant supporting our early care and education initiatives. We appreciate your investment, as BCDI-Atlanta works to expand and diversify the early education workforce!

Check out our latest blog post on how you can support Black-owned businesses and nonprofit organizations— not just this month but all year round.



Join the Council for Professional Recognition on February 16 @ 3:00-4:30 PM EST for a webinar on Preparing for the CDA® Assessment: A Deep Dive into the CDA Professional Portfolio featuring BCDI-Atlanta President Dr. Bisa Batten Lewis.



Please join us for our Community Cafe: Double Dutch & Our Health on February 16 @ 5:30-7:00 PM EST! This virtual event will feature our Farm to Early Care & Education partner, Wande Okunoren-Meadows of Little Ones Learning Center, with health and wellness resources from our NBCDI Good For Me! nutrition program.



BCDI-Atlanta President Dr. Bisa Lewis will speak alongside a panel of partners and colleagues at the 2023 SRCD Biennial Meeting to be held March 23-25, 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The panel’s conversation roundtable, When all the Voices Work Together: Lessons From Community-Engaged Research Approaches, will be moderated by
Dr. Allison Holmes of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and held on Thursday, March 23 at 10:00-11:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Panelists include:
  • Dr. Kevin Ferreira van Leer, California State University - Sacramento
  • Dr. Yolanda Stokes, Child Trends
  • Dr. Bisa Lewis, Black Child Development Institute-Atlanta
  • Dr. Jacqueline Sims, Boston University


BCDI-Atlanta's next Quarterly Affiliate Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 6:30-8:00 PM ET. Please bring a colleague, family member or friend to learn more about what we do and how to get involved! 




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