Neria Aylward (she/her) is a medical student based in St. John’s. She joined the Indy’s board in 2021, where she is involved with the board’s fundraising and strategic planning work. She brings community organizing and not-for-profit experience to this role as a past Executive Director of the Jimmy Pratt Foundation.
Childcare and early childhood education are too important to be left to the profit-driven whims of the market. Only a publicly-funded and publicly-managed system will put children, families and workers first