Collaborators

Editors, Contributors, and Volunteers

Marva L. Lewis, PhD, IMH-E®

Associate Professor at Tulane University, researching rituals and routines of hair combing interaction and impact of colorism on parent/infant attachment relationships. Provides national training and consultation on implicit bias, historical trauma of slavery and racial disparities in child serving systems.

Founder and Director of The Place for Natural Connections

Deborah J. Weatherston,
PhD, IMH-E®

Dr. Weatherston has had a far-reaching and transformative impact on persons who work with infants and toddlers, and on the field of Infant Mental Health in Michigan and around the world. She co-founded the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program in Infant Mental Health at the Merrill Palmer Institute (now Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute) in 1988 and served as its director until 2004.