Iheoma Iruka, PhD, is Research Professor of Public Policy, Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Fellow, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG); and Director of the Early Childhood Health and Racial Equity Program at FPG. She is the former chief research officer for HighScope Educational Research Foundation and a former director of research and evaluation at the Buffett Early Childhood Institute at the University of Nebraska.