Providing Hyper-Localized Early Childhood Programming

"Dr. Nkechy Ekere Ezeh is a tenured professor of education at Aquinas College and the founder and pedagogical leader of the landmark Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative (ELNC) - an umbrella organization for six grass-roots intuitions of trust vested in ensuring that vulnerable children and families have access to place-based, culturally competent, quality early learning opportunities. In 2012, Dr. Ezeh developed Empowering Parents Impacting Children (EPIC)® as the main component of its two-generational approach. This EPIC model is one that empower parents to take back their role as a leader and their child's first teacher. Dr. Ezeh also founded Urban Core Collective (formerly Anchor Organization Network) that has an "indigenous leadership path" as one of their scopes of work"--