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Mandy Ableidinger

Policy and Practice Leader

Mandy serves as NCECF’s Policy and Practice Leader. She convenes NC’s early childhood stakeholders to collaborate on a world-class birth to eight early childhood system for North Carolina through her work leading the Pathways to Grade-Level Reading Initiative and facilitating state and local coordination using the Every Student Succeeds Act. She builds public will for improving birth through eight policy and practice through curating an online Birth‐to‐Eight Policy Center to serve as a reliable source of information on early childhood and communicating the impact of state and federal policy on NC’s young children and their families. 

Mandy has more than 15 years of experience in the nonprofit and public sectors, focused on children’s issues. Prior to joining NCECF, she was an independent contractor in the early childhood, child welfare, and child mental health fields, including helping to guide the first year of the Pathways Initiative for NCECF. She has previously served as the Director of Policy and Budget Analysis at Action for Children NC (now NC Child), and as a fiscal policy analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco and spent two years there working on education issues with the UN World Food Programme, teaching English, and learning Moroccan Arabic (which she has now, sadly, mostly forgotten).

Mandy holds a B.A. from Duke University and a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from Princeton University. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and three children.

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