Staff & Board

Staff

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Nadine Ayudiani

Research Assistant

Nadine is a research assistant for the Be REAL: Resilient Attitudes and Living study and the NEW Moms Connect study. 

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Becca Calhoun

Becca Calhoun

Director of Community Programs and Training

Becca leads CCFW’s community partnerships, program development and evaluation, with a primary focus on trainings for professionals and programs to support families in the perinatal period.

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Shayla Collins

Continuing Education Specialist

Shayla designs and leads CCFW mindfulness and compassion programs for providers working with children and youth. She also supports the implementation of mindfulness-based programs for parents.

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Marcellina DesChamps

Associate Director of Program and Operations

Marcellina oversees all of CCFW’s programming and events, public relations, and advancement efforts.

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Lynn Fainsilber-Katz

Professor of Psychology and CCFW Associate Director

Dr. Katz research focuses on children’s social and emotional development in the context of family relationships, including marital conflict, domestic violence, and parent’s use of emotion coaching,

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Kevin King

Professor of Psychology and CCFW Associate Director

Dr. King directs the RADLab (Regulation and Affect across Development Lab). The RADLab team studies how teens and young adults regulate their impulses and emotions, with a focus on how that regulation influences health risk behaviors like alcohol, marijuana use, binge eating, and suicidal behaviors.

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Liliana Lengua

Professor of Psychology & CCFW Director

Dr. Lengua is CCFW's founding director and an internationally recognized expert on children’s vulnerable and resilient responses to stress, how parenting and children’s temperament contribute to those responses, and the impact of adversity on parenting and children’s social-emotional development.

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Robyn Long

Robyn Long

Program & Training Director, Be REAL

Robyn leads CCFW’s partnerships, training, research, and program development for Be REAL, a program that supports the well-being of college students and professionals.

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Natasha Moini

Clinical Research Study Coordinator

Natasha coordinates the NEW Moms Connect Study.

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Aliza Pilisuk

Aliza Pilisuk

Program Coordinator

Aliza coordinates administrative processes for CCFW's public programming and events.

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Stephanie F. Thompson

Research Scientist

Dr. Thompson is a researcher in the areas of maternal mental health, parenting, and children’s neurophysiological and behavioral adjustment. She teaches graduate students on the accurate diagnosis of childhood disorders and the development of children’s social and emotional well-being.

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Board

Daniel J Siegel, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
Co-Founding Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA
Executive Director, Mindsight Institute

Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
Pediatrician, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic and Seattle Children's Hospital

Erin Okuno

Executive Director, Southeast Seattle Education Coalition

John Sabol

President, John and Nancy Sabol Foundation

Judy Chase (MBA), retired

Community Advocate

Larissa Duncan, Ph.D.

Elizabeth C. Davies Chair in Child & Family Well-Being
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lenna Liu, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics at University of Washington School of Medicine
Pediatrician, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic and Seattle Children's Hospital

Mark Greenberg, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor, Penn State University
Founding Director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
Co-founder, CASEL

Mona Grife

K-12, Postsecondary, and Community Strategies Manager, King County, Children, Youth, and Young Adults Division

Stephen D. Arnold, Ph.D.

Vice Chairman, George Lucas Educational Foundation
Chairman, Healthy Minds Innovations
Board Vice Chairman, Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.

Ronald J Rabin, MS, MA

Executive Director, Maritz Family Foundation
Principal, R J Rabin & Associates

Yaffa Maritz, MA, LMHC

Founder and Director, Community of Mindful Parenting
Co-founder, Listening Mothers