Chief Financial and Operations Officer

Akash Mangar joined All Our Kin as the Chief Financial and Operations Officer in 2021 and leads our Finance and Operations functions including Human Resources, Information Technology, and Facilities. Akash began his career in non-profits as a college freshman in 1999 and it is here that he realized his calling to work for the benefit of those in need and to dedicate his career to non-profit organizations. As the parent of a wonderful toddler, he knows the importance for working parents to have high quality child care and early education options. This is why the mission of All Our Kin resonates closely with him. Akash is an accomplished financial leader, manager, and strategist, with over twenty years of experience including several years at Public Health Solutions as a Contract Manager, at Children's Aid as a Budget Director and at The Door and University Settlement Society as the Director of Finance. Akash serves as Treasurer of the Board of TCJ Seva Foundation, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2012 to provide financial and other support to people of Guyana and of Guyanese descent in the tri-state area. He holds an MBA in Management and Leadership from Dowling College and a BS in Accounting from Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Chief Operating Officer

Phone: (475) 619-9641

Erica Phillips brings a diverse set of business and education experiences to All Our Kin, a leading social enterprise in early education. As the Chief Operating Officer, she is responsible for strong program implementation across multiple sites, ensuring fidelity to All Our Kin’s nationally-recognized model for improving availability and quality of home-based child care, and leading All Our Kin’s expansion into new markets. Prior to joining All Our Kin, Erica founded Second Home Early Child Care Centers, which prepares children for in family child cares for life-long achievement. Previously, Erica was Senior Director at Achievement First Charter School Network, where she created and led the Human Capital team. Erica was also a fellow with the Education Pioneers 2008 NY cohort and 2014 NextGen Pahara Cohort. Erica began her career working as a strategy consultant at Monitor Group. Erica holds an M.B.A. and an M.Ed. from Stanford University, and a B.S. in industrial engineering from Northwestern University.

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Phone: (203) 772-2294

Jessica Sager is the co-founder and chief executive officer of All Our Kin. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, Jessica co-teaches a Yale University seminar on “Child Care, Society, and Public Policy,” and is a trustee of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. She has provided commentary on child care issues for Time, The Hill, New America, and Education Week. Jessica’s honors include the Seton Elm-Ivy Award, the US Small Business Administration’s “Women in Business Champion” award, the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, New Profit’s “Extraordinary Social Female Entrepreneur” designation, the Roslyn S. Jaffe Award Grand Prize, and the Ashoka Changemakers/Robert Wood Johnson Champion of Children's Wellbeing award. She is an Ashoka Fellow, a Fellow of the 14th class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship, and an Aspen Braddock Scholar.

Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer

Phone: (203) 772-2294 ext. 15

Janna was born and raised in New Haven and attended the New Haven Public Schools. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Janna taught in the South Bronx through Teach For America. In addition to her work at All Our Kin, Janna co-teaches, with Jessica, a course on “Child Care, Society, and Public Policy” at Yale. Active in the New Haven community, Janna is an Associate Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale University and a founder of The Group with No Name, a civic organization that turns New Haven's residents into citizens. Janna serves as chair of the board of the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation, a sixty-seven-year old academic summer program, which brings together Yale students and New Haven middle school students on Yale's campus. She is the former chair of the advisory board of the Community Fund for Women and Girls, a component fund of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Janna was awarded the Yale Jefferson Award and the Roslyn S. Jaffe Grand Prize Award. She was a Zero to Three Leadership Fellow and a Public Voices Fellow at Yale. She is a Fellow of the 19th class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship and a Promising Ventures Fellow. Janna was recently awarded the Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership given annually to a Teach For America alum whose work has led to significant progress toward educational equity and excellence.