Our Staff

The Principal Investigator

Mary Dozier, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of ABC Parenting Institute, Unidel Amy E. duPont Chair, and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware in the United States. She has studied the development of young children in foster care and young children living with neglecting birth parents, examining challenges in attachment and regulatory capabilities. Along with her graduate students and research team, she developed Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) for parents of vulnerable infants.  In 2016, she was named the Francis Alison Professor, the university’s highest faculty honor. In 2018, she received the International Society for Infancy Studies Translational Research Award and was the 2019 recipient of the American Psychological Association Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution in Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society.

OUR IMPLEMENTATION TEAM

LINDSAY ZAJAC, Ph.D.

Managing Director

VINAYA RAJAN, Ph.D.

Director of Training

BRIANA HAUT, Psy.D.

Directer of Clinical Supervision

YANIRA DE LA ROSA, B.A.

Director of Fidelity Supervision

KIRSTEN MCLAUGHLIN, Ph.D.

Manager of Program Evaluation

AUTUMN BROWN, B.A.

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisor

BO-RAM KIM, Ph.D.

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisor

CIANA SWAIN, B.A.

Fidelity Supervisor and Parent Coach

CHRISTOPHER COSTELLO, B.A.

Program Manager and Fidelity Supervisor

SYDNEY BALLENGER, B.A.

Research Assistant and Parent Coach

NAKIRA HALL, B.S.

Parent Coach

Micaela Forsyth, B.S.

Parent Coach

OUR RESEARCH TEAM

CLAIRE DAHL

Graduate Student

KRISTEN COTTON

Graduate Student

TABITHA SELLERS

Graduate Student

KRIS RIOS

Research Associate

PAIGE DEVIVO

Project Coordinator

ABC SUPERVISION CONSULTANTS

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisors

ALLISON LIPSCOMB

Clinical Supervisor

EMILY FREEDMAN

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisor

EMMA GREENBERG

Fidelity Supervisor

GABBY TAUBENFELD

Fidelity Supervisor

HAILEY MOORE

Fidelity Supervisor

HAYLEE JANSEN

Fidelity Supervisor

JESSICA BARNA-LOMBARDI

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisor

JOANNA VAN OTTERLOO

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisor

JORDAN MYHRE

Clinical and Fidelity Supervisor

JULIANNE SPECK

Fidelity Supervisor

NURIA MOLANO

Fidelity Supervisor

SILVIA RODRIGUEZ

Fidelity Supervisor

YARIZELL CONTRERAS

Fidelity Supervisor

OUR ALUMNI

Past Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Researchers, & Staff

Alec Trahan

Alexa Rial

Alyson Molnar

Amanda Costello

Amanda Flagg

Amy Huffer

Andrea Minor

Bernie Chen

Brady Bates

Bridget Cahill

Caroline Roben

Cassie Cheeseman

Cassie Travers

Chase Stovall-McClough

Christiana Martin

Christine Tyrrell Baker

Dani Katz

Daria Brennock

EB Caron

Elisa Macera

Elizabeth Allen

Elizabeth Higley

Emma Margolis

Erin Lewis-Morrarty

Evan Kipp

Heather Yarger

Jackie Costello

Jessica Brennan

Jingchen Zhang

Johanna Bick

John Ackerman

Julie Hoye

Katie Albus

Kelsey Jernegan

Kimberly May

Kristin Bernard

Krupa Patel

Lee Raby

Lexie Tabachnick

Madelyn Labella

Marta Benito-Gomez

Marta Korom

Melissa Manni Sumner

Oliver Lindhiem

Pablo Carrera

Regina Fasano

Sandra Sepulveda

Stacia Bourne

Stevie Schein

Taylor Hamill

Teresa Lind

Terrique Morris