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Leadership Team

Tracy Crudo

Tracy Crudo

Liz Snyder

Liz Snyder

Traci LaLiberte

Traci LaLiberte

  • Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare Executive Director
  • she/her/hers
  • lali0017@umn.edu
Windy Ross

Windy Ross

  • DCYF Child Safety and Permanency Division Director of Training and Prevention
  • she/her/hers
  • windy.ross@state.mn.us
Eric Schnell

Eric Schnell

  • Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare Director of Strategic Initiatives
  • he/him/his
  • eschnell@umn.edu

Metro Training Team

Richard Coleman

Richard Coleman

Melissa Tjader Berg

Melissa Berg

Nadia Mohamed

Nadia Mohamed

Shan Townsend

Shay Marlowe

Shay Marlowe

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training Specialist
  • he/him/his
  • smarlowe@umn.edu
Jay Johnson

Jay Johnson

Amy Lopez

Amy Lopez

Regional Training Team

Kristin Malin

Kristin Malin

Addie Trettel

Addie Trettel

Nicole Davis

Nicole Davis

Bonnie Vang

Bonnie Vang

Carrie Meiners

Carrie Meiners

Lauren Rojas

Lauren Rojas

Muriah Deuth

Muriah Deuth

Nicole Freeman

Evaluation and Certification Team

Jane Fields

Jane Fields

Jun Peter Li

Peter Li

Stuart Miller

Stu Miller

Ezgi Havsoy

Ezgi Havsoy

Patrick Torralba

Patrick Torralba

Educational Technology Innovations (ETI) Partners and IT

Maddie Grover

Maddie Grover

Rita Gauscheman

Rita Gauscheman

Brenda Hernandez

Brenda Hernandez

Amber Sosa

Amber Sosa

Avery McGovern-Pierce

Policy and Partnership Team

Renee Armstrong

Renee Armstrong

  • Supervisor of Training Operations and Policy
  • she/her/hers
  • randers@umn.edu
Andrea Bartels

Andrea Bartels

Marissa Kirby-Stofferahn

Marissa Kirby-Stofferahn

Melissa Mendez

Melissa Mendez

Ashlee Vaughan

Ashlee Vaughan

Brittany Koneczny-Palm

Brittany Koneczny Palm

Rachel Johnson

Rachel Johnson

Community Trainers

Jody Alholinna

Rhia Borhmann Spears

Rhia Bornmann-Spears

Amy Brustuen

Amy Brustuen

Dustin Burford

Meg Carriveau

Jamie Christensen

Jamie Christianson

Sharon Chung

S.K. Chung

  • Foundations New Worker Training; LGBTQ+
  • they/them, she/her
  • skchung@umn.edu

Rebecca Church

Carole Cole

Carole Cole

Sarah Contreras

Sarah Contreras

  • Family Group Decision Making (FGDM); Qualified Individual (QI)
  • she/her
  • contr016@umn.edu

Katie Crowell

Susan Drucker

Susan Drucker

Najoicia Elmore

Najoicia (Joi) Elmore

Alicia Farrington

Alicia Farrington

Emily Filzen

Emily Filzen

Kate Fitterer

Sara Goodsell

Sara Goodsell

  • Sexually Exploited Youth; Foundations New Worker Training
  • she/her
  • sgoodsel@umn.edu
Inez Grace

Inez Grace

Rachele Green

Rachele Green

Tori Hensley

Tori Hensley

Carly Hiti

  • Sexually Exploited Youth; Foundations New Worker Training
  • she/her
  • hitix012@umn.edu
Kamyala Howard

Kamyala Howard

  • Caring for Infants and Toddlers; Foundations New Worker Training
  • she/her
  • howa0141@umn.edu
Kamisha Johnson

Kamisha Johnson

Danette Kimball

Cheryl Kolb-Untinen

Lisa Lindstedt

Tonia Lofton

Tonia Lofton

Michael Looney

Michael Looney

Clint Mack

  • Foundations New Worker Training; Foster Parent College
  • he/him
  • mack0248@umn.edu

Nikki Miller

Scott Miller

Wendy Morton

Wendy Morten

Mary Ness

  • Foundations New Worker Training; Structured Decision Making
  • she/her
  • mness@d.umn.edu

Tracy Nielsen

Katie Olson

Alan OMalley Laursen

Alan O'Malley Laursen

Kelsey Pacha

Luke Pacha

Jenna Peterson

Veasna Pho

Emilie Potter

Emilie Potter

Stephanie Ptak

Michelle Robertson

Lisa Salo

Tammi Stoos

Diana Christine Teodorescu

Diana Teodorescu

Cynthia Thompson

Cynthia Thompson

Jennifer Thompson

DeClara Tripp

DeClara Tripp

Jullian Williams

Julian Williams

Israel Willis

Israel Willis

Operations

Nubia Esparza

Nubia Esparza

  • Operations Manager for the Multidisciplinary Institute for Child Welfare (MICW)
  • nubiae@umn.edu
Nora Lee

Nora Lee

Paying Thao

Paying Thao