About Nan Dale

Ms. Dale has had a distinguished career in both the field of international public health as well as in child welfare and juvenile justice. Most recently, she served as President/CEO of Helen Keller International, managing an agency devoted to the prevention of malnutrition and the elimination of preventable blindness around the world. Previous to that role, she served for 22 years as the President/ CEO of The Children’s Village (CV), a multi-service agency for children, adolescents and families, located principally in Dobbs Ferry, New York, with an additional large office in Harlem and programs in numerous other sites. She also created and ran the Children’s Village Institute, a separate not-for-profit corporation, to house the Center for Child Welfare Research, initiated to bridge the gap between practitioners, academics and policy makers. During her tenure at CV she brought the agency from a fledgling organization with an annual budget of $3 million to a multi-service $43 million agency, with a national reputation for program excellence and innovation.

Her international work began when she took a leave of absence from CV in 1993 to see if she could find a way to be of service to those victimized by the ethnic cleansing that was then taking place in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In short order, she developed The Croatia Project to improve the conditions in the refugee camps, develop schools and psycho-social supports, and train local personnel and NGO staff members in post traumatic stress syndrome and conflict resolution work with adolescents. After returning to CV, she became engaged in a range of international programs, including: assisting Doctors of the World in Sierra Leone to assess the efficacy of providing support services to victims of the war testifying before the world court; working with the American Friends Service Committee in Iraq in 1999 to assess the effect of the United Nations Sanctions on maternal and child health; implementing programs to bring NYC troubled youth to Ghana to install computers in local schools; and, developing youth exchanges between Croatia and Children’s Village.

Ms. Dale has published extensively, particularly in the area of child welfare, and is sought after as a speaker and panelist. She has also received numerous awards for her work. A complete list of publications and awards is available upon request.

Ms. Dale was awarded a BA in psychology from New York University and a MA in Special Education from Yeshiva University in New York City. She has also completed coursework towards a Ph.D in neuro-biology.