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Mary Walsh, Ph.D is the Founding Director and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Thriving Children and remains the Executive Director of City Connects. She is the Daniel E. Kearns Chair of Urban Education and Innovative Leadership Emerita, and currently Research Professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Over the past 20 years, Mary has led the design, implementation, and innovations of the City Connects research-practice partnership. Mary has published and presented widely in the area of school-community supports for schoolchildren and their families. Two of her books are听Children, Health and Learning听补苍诲听Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well-Being听(co-authored with M. Brabeck). She obtained her Ph.D. in听Clinical-Developmental Psychology from Clark University.

Claire Foley, Ph.D., serves as the Associate Director of City Connects, housed in the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children at Boston College. During her tenure, Claire has collaborated to advance the implementation and evaluation of City Connects, a model of comprehensive, integrated student support that is grounded in the developmental sciences. Claire serves as a liaison across research and practice teams and contributes to reporting and publication of project findings. Claire also contributes to cross-project efforts on measuring fidelity of implementation and on maintaining and developing a proprietary software system that enables comprehensive student support in schools. Claire鈥檚 academic background is in linguistics, with a focus on syntactic theory and language acquisition. At Boston College and in prior positions, Claire has published and taught in linguistics and led experimental research groups.