FIRST 5 CEO works to support Silicon Valley children

A new CEO aims to bring expertise in whole-child-thinking to FIRST 5 Santa Clara County.

Jennifer Kelleher Cloyd, 49, brings her experience as chief program officer and attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley to the youth-focused organization. She takes the helm from former longtime CEO Jolene Smith, who retired in 2021. FIRST 5 supports the healthy development of children from prenatal through age 5.

Kelleher Cloyd said the law foundation’s holistic perspective, including family health, housing, safety and well-being, provides a vantage point she’ll incorporate at FIRST 5.

“Having been an attorney in a social justice organization where we very much have the same mission to not only help people navigate the systems that exist, but to disrupt them entirely, gives me some experience that will definitely be helpful here,” she told San José Spotlight.

She hopes to bring her background in advocacy and policy work and her understanding of the weaknesses of the child welfare system to her new job.

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