Hallie Duke

Nebraska Early Childhood Strategic Plan: Collaborating Across Communities

Hallie Duke serves as a strategic consultant to the Buffett Early Childhood Institute on the development of the Nebraska Early Childhood Strategic Plan. In this role, she engages partners involved in the Preschool Development Grant and stakeholders in different roles across the state to identify priorities for action to improve access to quality early care and education in Nebraska. Her priorities for this work are to ensure that diverse voices from communities across the state are reflected in the goals and strategies and to generate an actionable and measurable strategic plan that will guide sustainable change. Prior to this work, Dr. Duke worked for 18 years to improve the health and well-being of Texans as a strategic and operational planning leader at Texas’s public health agency. Dr. Duke got her Ph.D. in child and family development at the University of Georgia after completing a degree in psychology at Texas A&M University.