Mathangi Subramanian

Mathangi@ColoradoKids.org

Mathangi is the Director of Early Childhood Policy at the Colorado Children’s Campaign. She is an author, educator, and researcher with over 20 years of experience in the field of learning and evaluation.

As an Assistant Vice President at Sesame Workshop, she designed and led summative and formative evaluations for early childhood interventions in more than a dozen countries around the world. She also served as a project manager, most notably leading Sesame’s early childhood emergency work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. As a Senior Policy Analyst at the New York City Council, she contributed to the design and passing of legislation making kindergarten mandatory, revised the citywide school discipline code to be more restorative for the city’s youngest learners, updated the citywide anti-bullying code, and expanded universal preschool seats to three-year-olds. As a founding Project Officer at UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Peace, she led an India-wide study of college students’ opinions of higher education in partnership with the Indian government.

A Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar and Bank Street Early Childhood Policy Fellow, she is also an award-winning writer and holds a doctorate in communication and education from Teachers College, Columbia University.  

Length of Service: < 1 year