Cliff Johnson is the executive director of the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families at the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C. In this role, Cliff is leading NLC's efforts to strengthen the capacity of municipal leaders to meet the needs of children, youth, and families in their communities. The Institute is working in five core program areas: education, youth development, early childhood development, the safety of children and youth, and family economic security.
Prior to his appointment as executive director of the Institute, Cliff spent three years as a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities working on the development of new approaches to job creation and innovative welfare to work strategies. For more than a decade from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's, he served in senior staff positions at the Children's Defense Fund, including three years as director of CDF's Programs and Policy Division. For many years, Cliff led CDF's work on issues related to youth employment and family economic security, and he played a major role in organizational initiatives focused on adolescent pregnancy prevention.
Cliff began his career as a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also co-authored two books on labor and social policy while serving as a research associate with the late Sar Levitan at George Washington University's Center for Social Policy Studies.
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