Co-founders Dr. Uri Treisman and Jackie McCaffrey, along with key advisor Dr. Gay Su Pinell, took on the challenge of tackling the early education opportunity gap. The program they imagined would leverage the human capital of AmeriCorps to deliver early literacy interventions that could put children in low-income schools on a path for lifelong success. We are grateful for the indispensable roles Sue Constable and Bryan Murdock, early directors of the program, played in the creation of what is now Literacy First.