In Virginia, it costs more to send one child to child care than to earn a degree from a local public university.
In Virginia,
13% of families with children (and 25% of black families) say they did not have enough to food eat.
That’s why SCAN VA is organizing year-round with advocates and partners to engage with elected officials, candidates, and communities to ensure that all children have access to quality, affordable early childhood education and child nutrition.
We’re committed to ensuring all children succeed in school and life.
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Jacqueline Mott
Virginia State Manager
Jacqueline is an early childhood education professional currently serving as the Virginia State Manager for Save the Children Action Network (SCAN).
Since moving to Virginia in 2008, she worked as an early childhood educator serving families in her community. Over the years, she has held a wide range of roles across the field, including ECE teacher, program administrator, multi‑site childcare center director, and CDA Professional Development Specialist.
Her advocacy journey with SCAN began in 2024, when she joined the organization’s statewide efforts and later served as a community action team lead, and then the Virginia State Lead.
She continued by working as a campaign captain on gubernatorial and Virginia House of Delegates races, supporting candidates committed to prioritizing early childhood education and nutrition.
A lifelong child advocate, Jacqueline has dedicated her career to strengthening systems that support children, families, and educators. She holds multiple degrees in human development, including a graduate certificate in nutrition and a master’s degree in human services counseling, focusing on parenting and child/adolescent development.
In her role as Virginia State Manager, Jacqueline brings deep field experience, policy understanding, and a strong commitment to advocating for and elevating the voices of educators, parents, and communities across the Commonwealth.
Email: jmott@savechildren.org
Marley Pulido Vargas (he/him)
Senior Director, State & Electoral Campaigns for the Eastern Region
Marley is a community organizer and SCAN's Senior Director, State & Electoral Campaigns for the Eastern Region. He's based in Washington DC.
He became an organizer in 2014 when working as a server in South Florida, he and his coworkers came together to fight wage theft at their workplace. Around the same time, he was knocking on doors and phone banking trying to get out the Latino vote during the Florida gubernatorial race.
Most of Marley’s advocacy work has been focused on multi-issue and intersectional campaigns that enable the leadership of the most impacted. He’s launched a local-turned-statewide campaign to fight wage theft in the Northern Virginia suburbs; coached Kickstarter employees as they built the very first union at a major tech company; taught a course at George Mason University on immigration and labor rights. He worked the historic elections of 2017 in Virginia that led to major wins for working families like the expansion of Medicaid. Most recently he worked as a Deputy Organizing Director with the Maryland Democratic Party, helping secure the election of Senator Angela Alsobrooks.
Marley joins SCAN as a working dad who has experienced food insecurity as he had to navigate a costly early education system. Advocating for kids is very personal to him. He currently oversees our lawmaker, electoral candidate and voter engagement strategy in Louisiana, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Virginia. He also guides our family engagement work in our efforts to elevate parent’s voices when advocating for quality early education and an end to child food insecurity in Louisiana and South Carolina.
Email: mpulido@savechildren.org