International

Mia Doces

Vice President of International
mdoces@cfchildren.org

Mia Doces, vice president of International, expands Committee for Children’s reach and augments its mission through global partnerships and initiatives that show promise for deep impact at scale.

She first joined Committee for Children as senior program designer and media specialist, playing an integral part in creating SEL and anti-bullying curricula and trainings used by tens of thousands of schools worldwide. The role combined her previous experience in education media production with a decade of experience as a teacher and counselor, roles that gave her firsthand insight into the barriers kids face that interfere with learning, such as bullying, abuse, racial inequities, and poverty.

In her current role as vice president of International she explores new avenues for broadening Committee for Children’s impact through SEL internationally. Mia received her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Vassar College and a master’s degree in education from Western Washington University. She has worked on state and national youth initiatives including the Washington State legislative anti-bullying work group, and advised organizations including Sesame Workshop, the Making Caring Common Project at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Born This Way Foundation. Mia currently serves on the steering committee for Karanga (a global SEL alliance), and previously served for several years as co-chair of Prevention Works, a Drug-Free Communities coalition in Seattle.

In her previous role at Committee for Children as vice president of Innovation, Mia led the Innovation team, which won the TIME Magazine Invention of Year Award in 2021.

Mia sees her SEL superpower as relationship-building. “The most successful projects involve bringing together the right people at the right time, and building teams that are passionate and excited about the work,” she says.

Find more of Mia’s work here:

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Happy to Be Me: An Anti-Bullying Discussion video series, Sesame Workshop

Carolyn Hubbard

Director of International Partnerships

As International Partnerships director, Carolyn Hubbard wears multiple hats and collaborates with organizations on initiatives in more than a dozen countries and in multiple time zones—all on any given day. It’s all part of her work to help organizations around the world choose and adapt resources to fit their social-emotional learning (SEL) curricula interests and needs.

Since joining Committee for Children in 2012, Carolyn has developed partnerships in Australia, Brazil, and China; produced full Spanish curricula for eight grade levels; and started initiatives in Mexico and Panama.

In looking for an organization that had education and international priorities at its core, she found the perfect fit here at CFC—and found a link to her roots as well.

“The clincher was the subject matter,” Carolyn says, “since my father’s PhD dissertation, written back in 1972, was about what we now call SEL, and it was part of my upbringing.”

Unsurprisingly, she names her SEL superpower to be self-motivation, and her career certainly reflects that. Carolyn graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with her bachelor’s degree in international studies, Spanish, and publishing, plus certificates in education and global management. Before joining CFC, she worked in publishing at Lonely Planet for more than a decade, spent four years as a bilingual fifth-grade teacher in Title 1 schools, and managed a small nonprofit organization in Kenya.