Yasmina Vinci serves on the board of the HeadStarter Network, a nonprofit organization created to provide a nimble, interdisciplinary, and forward-looking engine for driving innovation in early childhood development and education. She also serves as the executive director of the National Head Start Association, a nonprofit organization acting as the voice for more than 1 million children, 200,000 staff and 1,600 Head Start grantees in the United States. Prior to taking the helm of NHSA, Vinci served as the first executive director of the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (now Child Care Aware America), where she led NACCRRA's transition from an all-volunteer association of fewer than 200 child care resource and referral agencies to a powerful national network of 860+ community-based organizations. Vinci’s advocacy on behalf of children and families is grounded in her 11 years of experience as a practitioner in the early childhood development field. At the beginning of her career, she served as executive director of an early care and education program serving low-income families, and then as development director for a cluster of non-profit child care centers.
