Leadership

Our leadership guides the day-to-day and strategic work of First Focus. Click on the person’s name for a brief biography.

Bruce Lesley		Marguerite Kondracke
President		President & CEO, APA

• Wendy Cervantes
  Sr. Director, Child & Family Immigrant Policy
  
  
  
• Megan Curran
  Sr. Director, Family Economics
  
  
  
• Trenessa Freeman
  Office Administrator
  
  
  
• Ralph Forsht
  Sr. Vice President of Operations
  
  
  
• Samantha Harvell
  Sr. Director, Early Childhood & Juvenile Justice Policy
  
  
  
• Catherine Hodgetts
  Sr. Director, Health & Child Welfare Policy 
  
  
  
• Shadi Houshyar
  Vice President, Child Welfare Policy
  
  
  
• Alison Katsigiannis
  Executive Assistant to the President     
  
  
  
• Meghan McHugh
  Director, Policy & State Partnerships
  
  
  
• Katie Peters
  Sr. Director, Communications
   
  
  
• Lisa Shapiro
  Vice President, Health Policy 
  
  
  
• Christopher Spina
  Vice President & Counsel, Communications & Policy
  
  
  
• Kate Sylvester
  Vice President, Military Families