Our Team

Tenets Facilitators

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Ayannakai Nalo

LCSW

Oakland, CA

Carmen Rosa Noroña

LCSW, MSEd, CEIS

Boston, MA

Cecilia Reus

MA

Oakland, CA

MPHIL, LCSW

New York, NY

Kadija Johnston

LCSW

San Francisco, CA

Kandace Thomas

MPP, PhD

Memphis, TN

Karen Frankel

PhD

Denver, CO

Lynette Aytch

PsyD

Washington, DC

Maria St John

PhD, MFT

San Francisco, CA

Nucha Isarowong

PhD, LCSW

Chicago, IL/Seattle, WA

Teya Dahle

MSW, LICSW, IMH-E®IV-C

Rochester, MN

Staff

Tonia Spence

MSEd, MSW

Irving Harris Foundation

New York, NY

FaKelia Guyton

PhD

Irving Harris Foundation

Chicago, IL

Gregory Tate

BA

Irving Harris Foundation

Chicago, IL

In Memory

Rebecca
Shahmoon-Shanok

LCSW-R, PhD

1943-2020

We are honored to have known Rebecca as an Advisory Council member, Tenets Workshop Facilitator and dear friend. 

Her life and work will continue to guide, root and inspire us. 

With deep breaths, we hold Rebecca in our hearts. 

The Tenets were initially developed by:

Victor Bernstein, PhD
Family Support Program
The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration

Karen Frankel, PhD
Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD
Child Trauma Research Program
University of California San Francisco

Linda Gilkerson, PhD
Irving B. Harris Infant Mental Health Certificate Program
Erikson Institute

Mary Claire Heffron, PhD
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland

Anne Hogan, PhD
Harris Infant Mental Health Training Institute
Florida State University Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy

Carmen Rosa Noroña, MSW, MSEd, CEIS
Child Witness to Violence Project
Boston Medical Center

Joy D. Osofsky, PhD
Harris Program for Infant Mental Health
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Rebecca Shahmoon-Shanok, LCSW-R, PhD
Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services

Maria Seymour St. John, PhD, MFT
Infant-Parent Program
University of California San Francisco

Alison Steier, PhD
Harris Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Training Institute
Southwest Human Development

Kandace Thomas, MPP
Irving Harris Foundation

Other Contributors:

Nicola Brown
KOKORO

Sonja Okun
Root Cause

We are grateful to the following artists whose work is featured on this website and our materials:

Melisa Cardona, Photographer
New Orleans, LA          
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Maria Galivez, Muralist
San Francisco, CA

Matt Parker, Photographer
Boston, MA

Ojos Nebulosos, Photographer
New York, NY          
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Psychologists

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…On our own journeys