Maki Park

Affiliation

Migration Policy Institute

Biography

Maki Park is Senior Policy Analyst for Early Education and Care at the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, where her work focuses on early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies affecting children of immigrants and Dual Language Learners (DLLs) from birth to age 8 in the United States and internationally. Ms. Park has authored numerous reports, policy briefs and fact sheets on a wide range of ECEC issues affecting DLLs and immigrant families—from the ECEC workforce implications of growing superdiversity in the U.S. young-child population, to the lack of linguistic and cultural responsiveness measures in state early childhood quality rating and improvement systems. Additionally, Ms. Park plays important technical assistance roles with state and local actors, supporting their efforts to work collaboratively across local communities to address program quality and access issues facing immigrant and refugee facing in Home Visiting, Child Care and PreK systems. Her expertise includes an international comparative lens, having managed the engagement of U.S. system actors and stakeholders in the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years, a five-year project which convened U.S. policymakers from key countries in Europe and North America to examine responses to the ECEC needs of refugees and asylum seekers.