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Kerry Kennedy, M.A.
Kerry Kennedy attended the University of Maryland, College Park where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies in 2004. Following graduation, she worked in healthcare public relations representing several mental health pharmaceuticals, which led to her desire to study psychology at the graduate level.  Kerry enrolled in New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where she focused on child and adolescent psychology and earned her Master of Arts degree in 2008.  During her tenure at NYU, Kerry was named a Master of Arts Scholar by the university and worked as a graduate research assistant.  In this capacity, she examined the psychosocial ramifications of infants with craniofacial anomalies, giving her the opportunity to strengthen her skills in data collection, management, and statistical analyses.  In December of 2008, Kerry joined the National SafeCare® Training and Research Center as the group's research coordinator.

 

Sandra Z. Lutzker, M.S.
Sandra Z. Lutzker is a curriculum specialist for the National SafeCare Training and Research Center.  Prior to that, she spent 18 years as a classroom teacher (kindergarten - 3rd grade).  She was a Mentor teacher and supervised student teachers.  She spent 12 years as an Early Childhood Education Director (infancy - age 7), and developed the parent/infant curriculum for Project 12-Ways (SafeCare precursor) while providing home visitation for young mothers.  She has presented 28 papers and workshops.   She is the author of 3 peer-reviewed journal articles and a book chapter.   Plus, she has served as a guest reviewer for Young Children.  Having served on numerous committees and boards, she served as Vice-President, then President of Southern Illinois Association for the Education of Young Children.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of the Pacific and her Master of Science degree in Human Development (Emphasis on Child and Family) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  Her master thesis was “Prompting to increase mother-baby stimulation with single mothers” which was published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

 

Graduate Research Assistants


(from left to right: Ashwini Tiwari, Jessica Valente, Kim Frederick, and Brian Panasuk)