Beth Meloy

Beth Meloy, PhD, is a consultant and founding member of the Child and Family Advisory Collaborative. As President of Meloy Child and Family Policy Solutions, she leverages her expertise in child development and early learning program design to support policy analysis at both the state and federal levels. Beth has worked closely as a consultant on a variety of projects in California including the Master Plan for Early Learning and Care, UTK implementation, the Preschool to 3rd Grade Alignment Initiative, and the UPK Mixed Delivery Quality and Access Workgroup at the California Department of Education; and the Early Childhood Education learning modules for the California Policy Collaborative. Previously, Beth served as a senior researcher and policy analyst at the Learning Policy Institute, where she co-led a team conducting independent research to improve early childhood policy and practice. Her extensive background includes roles as an executive policy fellow with the Society for Research in Child Development, congressional fellow and Education Policy Advisor to Senator Al Franken (D-MN) and social science analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Head Start. Notably, she contributed to the development of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and the revision of Program Performance Standards. Beth holds an MPP and a PhD in child development from Georgetown University.