Ann M. O'Leary is a lawyer, nonprofit leader, and a senior policy advisor in Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Campaign. O'Leary is a nationally recognized expert in developing polices that promote early childhood education and labor protections for working families. Until April 2015, she was vice president and director of the Children and Families program at Next Generation and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress. At Next Generation she was the founding director of Too Small to Fail, a national initiative aimed at closing the "word gap" in vocabulary development in young children, which leads to lifelong disparities in education and health. Along with Christopher Edley, she is a cofounder of the Opportunity Institute, a nonprofit startup dedicated to advancing opportun