Chief Finance 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.

Interim Chief Impact Officer 

Chief Strategy Officer 

Brandi has over 15 years’ experience as an educator, strategic thinker and thought partner as an early childhood professional. Dr. King works as a champion for children and families, promoting high quality child care and practice that informs early childhood development, teaching and learning for professionals; as well as strengthening professional development initiatives for those who work with families and children from birth to age eight. Brandi is very interested in training and technical assistance (T/TA), research, and capacity building efforts which inform early childhood policy and focus on professional growth opportunities for early care professionals. Brandi thrives on supporting others in implementing the programmatic work of the organization, ensuring that team member’s abilities are acknowledged and appreciated to the greatest extent possible. Dr. King brings a diverse level of experience to the work of early childhood education, including collaborative approaches to problem solving, a broad focus on the social emotional development, health equity, and a special interest in the workforce development of all early childhood educators. She is deeply committed to organizational strategic growth, practice and policy that impacts systemic change at the local, state, and national levels. Brandi holds a doctorate of philosophy from Howard University and completed a Neuroscience postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Wisconsin.

Chief Development Officer 

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.

Jessica Sager is the co-founder and chief executive officer of All Our Kin, a nationally recognized nonprofit that trains, supports and sustains family child care providers to ensure that children and families have the foundation for success in school and in life. Through All Our Kin, caregivers succeed as business owners; working parents find stable, high-quality care for their children; and children receive early learning experiences that lay the groundwork for achievement in school and beyond. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, Jessica co-teaches a Yale University seminar on “Child Care, Society, and Public Policy,” and serves on the board of the Low Income Investment Fund and the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. She is an Ashoka Fellow, a Pahara Aspen Fellow, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and has provided commentary on child care issues for Fortune, Time, The Hill, New America, and Education Week. Most recently, she was named to the CARE 100 list of the Americans doing the most to re-imagine and re-humanize our care system.