Steering Committee

The FRPN steering committee supported the creation and development of the FRPN. It consists of a carefully selected group of fatherhood evaluation researchers, practitioners and policymakers who are leaders in the field.

Christopher A. Brown

Christopher A. Brown
Christopher Brown – President, National Fatherhood Initiative®
Education: 
B.A., University of North Texas, M.A., University of South Florida
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Cynthia Osborne

Cynthia Osborne
Dr. Cynthia Osborne - Executive Director, Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center and Professor of Early Childhood Education and Policy, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University
Education: 
B.A., Claremont McKenna College, M.A., Claremont Graduate University, M.P.P., Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Ph.D., Princeton University
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David J. Pate, Jr.

Dr. David J. Pate, Jr. – Associate Professor of Consumer Science, Human Development & Family Studies and Dean’s Fathers and Fathering Faculty Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education: 
B.S.W., University of Detroit, A.M., University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Debra Pontisso

Debra Pontisso – Convener, Responsible Fatherhood Roundtable and Responsible Fatherhood Policy Work Group
Education: 
B.A, University of Northern Colorado, M.P.A., University of Southern California
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James Rodriguez

Dr. James C. Rodríguez – President & Chief Executive Officer, Fathers and Families Coalition of America
Education: 
M.S.W., Arizona State University
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Jeffrey M. Johnson

Dr. Jeffery M. Johnson – President, the National Partnership for Community Leadership
Education: 
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
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Jennifer Bellamy

Dr. Jennifer Bellamy – Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Denver
Education: 
M.S.W., University of Texas, Ph.D., Columbia University
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Kimberly Dent

Kimberly A. Dent – Executive Director, the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood
Education: 
B.S., University of Pittsburgh, M.P.P.A, Ohio University
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Kirk E. Harris

Dr. Kirk E. Harris – Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Education: 
B.S., Rutgers University, M.P.A., University of Kentucky, J.D., Thomas Jefferson Law School, Ph.D., Cornell University
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Natasha Cabrera

Natasha Cabrera
Dr. Natasha Cabrera – Professor, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park
Education: 
B.S.c. and M.A., University of Toronto, Ph.D., University of Denver
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Richard Tolman

Dr. Richard M. Tolman – Sheldon D. Rose Collegiate Professor of Social Work, the University of Michigan School of Social Work
Education: 
M.S.W., University of Michigan, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ronald Mincy

Dr. Ronald B. Mincy – Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at the Columbia University School of Social Work
Education: 
A.B., Harvard University, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Rufus Sylvester Lynch

Dr. Rufus Sylvester Lynch – Founder & Chair, the Strong Families Commission, Incorporated
Education: 
B.A., Morgan State College, M.S., University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
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