Professor Emeritus at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC).

President of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund

Founder and executive director of the national Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center.

Director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office (CDF-SRO), and also serves as the Regional Administrator for the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic & Social Justice (SRBWI).

Executive Director of external affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. 

Executive Director of North Mississippi Education Consortium 

Associate Research Professor and Research Fellow for the Social Science Research Center (SSRC)

Senior fellow for early childhood education at the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and director of the Southern Early Childhood Education Justice (SECEJ) Network.