Visiting Research Fellow, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina
Program Consultant, Youth and Education, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Dr. McKinney is a visiting research fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also serves as senior consultant to the Family Research Initiative at Michigan State University.

Dr. McKinney was the program director for youth and education programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich., until 2006, where he developed and reviewed programming priorities; evaluated and recommended proposals for funding and administered projects, both domestic and international. Previously, Dr. McKinney was the associate director and community scholar in residence for the Institute for Children, Youth and Families at Michigan State University. He conducted ethnographic research in the areas of pervasive poverty and coordinated an in-depth study of the delivery of early childhood education programs.

Prior to his position at Michigan State University, Dr. McKinney was a program officer at the C.S. Mott Foundation. His main responsibilities included administration, pre-grant investigations and evaluation in the areas of historically black colleges and early childhood and parenting education. He has held a number of positions, including director of planning and community affairs with the Mott Children’s Health Center and state coordinator for early childhood education with the Michigan Department of Education.

Dr. McKinney received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and completed a Bush Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in child development and public policy at the University of North Carolina.