Wayne Ysaguirre serves as the Chief of Workforce Innovation at the CAYL Institute. From 2007 to 2018 he was president and CEO of Nurtury, New England’s oldest and largest early learning agency, where he worked when he was recognized as a Barr Fellow. He has played an integral role in raising standards and investments in early care and education public policy nationwide. While at Nurtury, he developed the Learning Lab, the nation’s first Lab School and Gold LEED Certified center in public housing. Wayne currently serves on the boards of the Children’s Investment Fund and Higher Ground. In addition, he serves on the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education’s Early Literacy Expert Panel, the Harvard Center on the Developing Child’s Pediatric Innovation Initiative on Toxic Stress, and Boston’s Birth to Eight Initiative. Originally from Belize, Wayne earned his public and nonprofit management MPA from Suffolk University.