Melissa Mincic

Leveraging New and Evolving Policies and Funds to Support Local Child Care

Melissa Mincic is a senior policy specialist with the early care and education project, part of the children, youth and families team at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). Mincic joined NCSL in March 2020 and tracks legislation, authors policy briefs, and presents and recruits experts to present on a range of early childhood topics related to child care and early education. Her current specializations include early childhood mental health, school readiness, and early childhood intervention. Prior to joining NCSL, Mincic was an early childhood researcher in higher education settings, where she worked to develop early and middle childhood curricula and trainings for parents and early childhood educators, and at the administrative level at the Colorado Department of Education and Denver Public Schools. She earned her Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology with an emphasis in social-emotional development in preschool-age children from George Mason University.