Reading First Advisory Committee

Designated Federal Officer (DFO): Deborah Spitz, Reading First Team Leader

Committee Membership (as of August 13, 2007):

Nominated by NICHD:
Laurie Cutting: Research Scientist, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Maria Carlo: School of Education, University of Miami*
Donna Scanlon: School of Education, University at Albany, State University of
New York
Fred Morrison: Center for Human Growth and Development, University of
Michigan

Nominated by NIFL:
Maria Carlo: School of Education, University of Miami*
Nonie K. Lesaux: Harvard Graduate School of Education*
Frank Vellutino: School of Education, University at Albany, State University of
New York

Nominated by NAS:
Kris Gutierrez: Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar: School of Education, University of Michigan
Nonie K. Lesaux: Harvard Graduate School of Education*
Charles Perfetti: Learning Research and Development Center, University of
Pittsburgh*

Nominated by ED:
Charles Perfetti: Learning Research and Development Center, University of
Pittsburgh*
Katherine Mitchell: Assistant State Superintendent of Education for Reading,
Alabama Department of Education
John Lloyd: Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Susan Brady: Haskins Laboratories (Yale), and Department of Psychology,
University of Rhode Island

* Several members were nominated by multiple agencies.