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Marcy Whitebook, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Her research focuses on issues of employment in settings for young children with specific attention to its relationship to children's development and learning, and appropriate and accessible professional preparation and learning environments for the early childhood workforce. Prior to her current work, Dr. Whitebook was the founding executive director of the Washington-based Center for the Child Care Workforce (CCW), an organization she began in 1977 as the Child Care Employee Project.

Dan Bellm is a writer, editor, and translator living in Berkeley, California, USA. He has published three books of poetry, most recently Practice (Sixteen Rivers Press), winner of a 2009 California Book Award and named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2008 by the Virginia Quarterly Review. Dan is also a widely published translator of poetry and fiction from Spanish and French, Dan also works as a freelance writer and editor, with over 20 years of experience in the fields of early childhood education and social services.