Cassandra Hostetler has been in the early childhood field for more than 30 years. She is from Massachusetts, where she taught children ages 15 months to 5 years old for many years at both community and corporate early childhood programs before earning her Master's in Early Childhood Education from Tufts University. Cassandra moved to DC and worked at NAEYC for a few years before returning to center directing for the last fifteen years. She directed a corporate program and, most recently, a play-based, Reggio-inspired program.