Linda Tilly, Executive Director

VOICES for Alabama's Children

Ms. Tilly joined VOICES in May 1996, and has helped the organization assume an increasing role in public policy, leading several significant efforts in passage of key children’s legislation. The organization is now recognized as the most credible source of information regarding the well-being of children in Alabama by media, policymakers and other non-profits.

Nationally, Ms. Tilly has served on the Kids Count Network Steering Committee for the Annie E. Casey Foundation and chaired the committee’s Strategic Communications Work Group. She also served on the Board of Trustees of Voices for America's Children in Washington, DC.

In Alabama, Ms. Tilly serves on the state Children’s Policy Council, the authority that recommends and monitors annual spending of $55 million of Alabama’s tobacco settlement funds for children’s programs, the state Child Death Review Team, the Legislative Youth Advisory Oversight Commission, the Services for Alabama Families Study Commission, the Governor's Task Force to Strengthen Alabama's Families, the state Early Childhood Advisory Council, and the Governor’s Council on Pre-K Policy. She also serves on the boards of the Children First Foundation and the Alabama Poverty Project. In 2000, she was named Public Citizen of the Year by the Montgomery Unit of the National Association of Social Workers.

A former marketing director in the corporate sector, she is a graduate of Leadership Montgomery, Leadership Alabama and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business Leadership Development Program. She has attended The Fundraising School at Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy and is a trained mentor for the University of the South School of Theology's Education for Ministry program. Ms. Tilly holds a B.S. in Secondary Education (magna cum laude)from Auburn University and an M.B.A. (with high honors) from Miami University.