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Partner
Public Catalyst

Eileen Crummy spent her 33 year career in public child welfare in New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) beginning as a child protective services worker before rising through the ranks to become the agency’s Director. She also served as the Acting Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families.  As DYFS Director, Eileen led a workforce of 6,000 staff focusing them intently on achieving child welfare reform. Those efforts led to the creation of New Jersey’s first case practice model, a systemic rethinking and reorientation of practice away from compliance towards outcomes, with an emphasis on family engagement. Eileen is a partner in Public Catalyst (Link opens in new window) and currently serves as a monitor of Michigan’s federal child welfare consent decree. She provides technical assistance to states and jurisdictions regarding the development of outcome-focused child welfare and human service programs. Eileen, a certified social worker, is a graduate of St. Francis University in Pennsylvania where she completed her BSW.

Clinical Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Law

Kathleen G. Noonan, JD, is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law with a focus on health and government law. Before coming to Madison, she was founding Co-Director of PolicyLab, a cross-disciplinary research and policy center focused on children’s health and well-being at the Research Institute of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She was also Adjunct Faculty for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and taught in the Masters in Public Health program.  Before joining CHOP, Kathleen spent seven years as a Senior Associate and Engagement Manager with Casey Strategic Consulting, the consulting arm of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. While at Casey, Kathleen led engagements around the country aimed to produce significant public system reforms for the benefit of vulnerable children, families, and communities. Earlier in her career, Kathleen was a practicing attorney at the Boston firm of Hill & Barlow. She served as a law clerk to United States District Judge Morris E. Lasker and has worked in public policy positions in New York City with the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, Inc., and Bank Street College of Education.

Monitor

Michigan Federal Child Welfare Judicial Consent Decree

Kevin Ryan served as New Jersey’s first Child Advocate and as the state’s first commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, successfully launching a reform of child welfare and juvenile justice services. During his tenure, the State set successive state records in adoptions, foster family recruitment and safety for children in placement. He also shepherded the development of a model family preservation and child abuse prevention network across the State. He spent more than a decade on the frontlines with homeless, runaway and trafficked youth before serving in government and now works internationally on behalf of trafficked and homeless children. Kevin also serves by appointment of the federal court as a monitor of Michigan’s child welfare consent decree. A former Harvard Wasserstein Fellow and Skadden Fellow, he received his undergraduate degree from Catholic University; a law degree from Georgetown; and a masters in law from NYU.