Jessica Mihaly

Transition Coordinator, School Readiness

Jessica Mihaly serves as transition coordinator for the community foundation’s Bridges to Success initiative. In this role, Jessica works with eight school district-community teams to improve the transition for students between early childhood education and early elementary school and to increase alignment of curriculum, standards and approaches to teaching.

Jessica holds a master’s degree in early childhood education and a multiple subjects teaching credential from Mills College in Oakland. She majored in child studies as an undergraduate at Tufts University and received her bachelor’s degree in dance movement studies from Naropa University.

Prior to joining the community foundation, Jessica was an independent consultant working on school readiness and the transition to kindergarten. She has served as a senior program associate with WestEd’s E3 Institute: Advancing Excellence in Early Education in Santa Clara County and as the preschool for all and school readiness coordinator for First 5 San Mateo County. She was founding director of the San Francisco Early Childhood Professional Development Initiative and the Early Childhood Professional Development and Education Collaborative. Jessica has also been an adjunct faculty member in the child development departments at Cañada College, Skyline College and City College of San Francisco.

Jessica lives with her husband and their 8-year-old son in Redwood City and has a daughter who is now attending U.C. Berkeley. Jessica enjoys hiking, walking her adopted dog, gardening, playing in the snow and, much to her surprise, watching her son play all manner of team sports.