Jeremy C. Kohomban, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Jeremy Christopher Kohomban, PhD, is the President and CEO of The Children’s Village and the President of Harlem Dowling. Two organizations founded in the early 1800’s that serve over 30,000 children and families.
Jeremy is a leading national advocate for reforms that prioritize family support over the use of family separation interventions. He was a primary contributor to the federal Family First Prevention Services Act, which created the greatest advances to the field in over four decades. And, under Jeremy’s leadership, The Children’s Village, the nation’s oldest—and once the largest—children’s residential treatment center, has been transformed into a national model for community-embedded family support.
Jeremy is outspoken in his recognition of the social justice antecedents that drive the foster care and juvenile justice systems, and in the belief that every child, regardless of age, deserves a family.
In a testament to Jeremy’s work, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services called The Children’s Village “one of the exemplary primary prevention efforts operating in urban and rural jurisdictions across the country.” He was invited to partner with the Federal Children’s Bureau to showcase The Children’s Village’s family-focused efforts. During his tenure, The Children’s Village was recognized with the Gold Prize from the New York Community Trust-New York Magazine’s Nonprofit Excellence Awards, the U.S. Congressional Coalition Angels in Adoption Award, the Child Welfare League of America Exemplary Innovative Leadership Award, and the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities’ Samuel Gerson Nordlinger Leadership Award.
Jeremy serves as a Trustee of Save the Children, a Trustee for the Save the Children Action Network (SCAN) and ArtsWestchester. He is also a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s child welfare initiative and serves as a reviewer for the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Jeremy was appointed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams to the Commission on Community Reinvestment and the Closure of Riker’s Island, and by New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to the New Arrivals Strategy Team to evaluate and identify solutions to improve supportive services for immigrants who arrived in New York City.
He is a graduate of Emporia State University, Kansas, holds a Masters from Long Island University, New York, a PhD from the School for Business and Leadership at Regent University, Virginia, and a LittD (Honorary Doctor of Letters) from Mercy College, New York.
For recent articles and commentary by Dr. Kohomban, click here or select links below.
The Imprint – A Rare Glimpse of American Unity
The Imprint – Child Welfare Recons with the Harm of Investigations
City Limits – A New Model for Affordable Housing
The Brookings Institution – Keeping up with the caseload: How to recruit and retain foster parents
Stanford Social Innovation Review – The Systematic Starvation of Those Who Do Good
Huffington Post – Survival Is Not Enough: Help Children Thrive, Not Just Survive
Chronicle of Philanthropy – Keeping Quiet About Wrongdoing at Nonprofits Only Makes Matters Worse
City and State – The Harsh Truths About Child Welfare in New York
CNN Video – Are My Parents OK?
NYNP Media – What does a Close to Home facility look like from the inside?
