advisory board
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Kelli Bohanon
Head Start State Collaboration Office Director
Washington State Department of Early Learning
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Linda Brekken
Director, SpecialQuest Birth-Five: Head Start/Hilton Foundation Training Program
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Virgina Buysse
Senior Scientist, Frank Porter Graham
Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
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Judith Carta
Professor of Special Education and Senior Scientist, University of Kansas Director, Juniper Gardens Children Project
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Rob Corso
Research Assitant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Project Coordinator of CSEFEL
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Maria Denney
Assistant Professor, Special Education
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Dr. Linda M. Espinosa
Professor of Early Childhood Education (Ret.)
University of Missouri, Columbia
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Lise Fox
Professor, University of South Florida
Director, Florida Center for Inclusive Communities
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Gene Gousie
Grantee Performance Support Specialist
Booz Allen Hamilton

Mary Louise Hemmeter
Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, Vanderbilt University
Principal Investigator of CSEFEL
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Scott Macklin
Chief Technology Officer, College of Education, University of Washington
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Jim O'Brien
Project Officer, Program Specialist, Health and Disabilities Branch, Office of Head Start
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Deborah Perry
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University
Project Director, Center for Child and Human Development
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Beth Rous
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Studies,
Director, Early Childhood,
Human Development Institute
University of Kentucky

Diane Sainato
Associate Professor, Special Education, Ohio State University
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Patricia Snyder
David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies, University of Florida
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Susan Spieker
Professor, Family and Child Nursing, University of Washington
Director, Center on Infant Mental Health and Development

Phil Strain
Professor, University of Colorado at Denver
Principal Investigator, CSEFEL