Presentations
"O Coração do Cuidado Baseado no Relacionamento (The Heart of Relationship-based Care)." Keynote presented at VI Seminário Internacional da Primeira Infância (6th International Convention on Early Childhood), Porto Alegre, Brazil, November, 2009.
"Innovative Strategies for Creating a Reflective and Culturally Competent Early Childhood Mental Health Workforce." Invited talk and discussion at the Harris Early Childhood Speaker Series. Chicago, IL, March, 2009.
"Defining the Competent Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist." Field Presentation at Zero To Three National Training Institute, Los Angeles, CA, December, 2008.
"Introduction to Infant Mental Health." Invited presentation to the Department of School Psychology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, April, 2008.
“Findings from a Montessori-based Infant-Toddler Program: Child and Family Outcomes.” Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, March 2007.
"Where does the heart belong in relationship-based care?" Invited presentation at the 2006 Institute for Infant Toddler Specialists of Indiana, West Lafayette, Indiana, August 2006.
"How do doulas do their work?" Invited presentation at the Evidence Base for the Use of Doulas in Practice at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois, October 2005.
"Home visiting in Early Head Start: Defining child and parent experiences inside the Black Box." Head Start Seventh National Research Conference, Washington, DC., June 2004.
"Evaluating Doula Support for Young Women." Plenary session presentation at the Seventeenth Annual Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2004.
"Exploring the Promise of Home Visiting." Leadership Forum for Children, Richmond, Virginia, April 2002.