Sherrill W. Mosee is founder and president of Family Care Solutions Inc., (FCS) a nonprofit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is creator of the FCS Child Care Scholarship, Yes Mommy Can, founding member of the Greater Philadelphia Consortium to Provide Child Care Access to Student-Parents, and author of Professor, Can I Bring My Baby to Class?
FCS was established in 1992 when Mosee needed to find quality childcare to return to work following maternity leave. She published Who's Who in Child Care in the Delaware Valley, a directory to help other working parent. When Mosee's stepdaughter became pregnant in her first year of college, the electrical engineer-turned-social developer remembered the challenges she had to meet as a young woman growing up in Baltimore with limited means trying to secure a good college education. How much harder it would have been, she thought, if she also had children to care for at the same time. She recognized the need to support low-income single mothers in college and the importance child care has on education attainment and gradation. Thus, she created the FCS Child Care Scholarship. Mosee oversees daily operations of the agency.
Sherrill is a member of United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania speaker's bureau, the National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers and the Higher Education Alliance for Advocates of Students with Children. She currently serves on the Mayor's Early Learning Advisory Committee, and Project U-Turn's Pregnant and Parenting Youth Sub-Committee. Sherrill is a 2008 graduate of the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute, a certificate program at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Policy. She also holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Drexel University.
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