Our Mission
We help professionals create Trauma Informed environments that heal and empower.
Our Story
In 2017, as a University instructor in the Educational Psychology department at California State University East Bay, our founder, Emily Santiago worked with professors to develop the Trauma Informed Educator program. A year later, the Center for Cognitive Diversity (CogDiv) was established and our first certification cohort began.
Our pioneering program is building experts across the US and abroad who can respond effectively to the needs of children with trauma, implement practices that promote equity and healing, and ensure all educators have the emotional capacity to prevent burnout.
CogDiv now builds on this model to provide training, coaching and peer support programs with the goal of expanding people's understanding of how trauma impacts all of us and providing strategies on how to build trauma informed communities. We truly believe that when we focus on the needs of people impacted by trauma, we will drive a revolution of compassion and innovation in our communities.
Our pioneering program is building experts across the US and abroad who can respond effectively to the needs of children with trauma, implement practices that promote equity and healing, and ensure all educators have the emotional capacity to prevent burnout.
CogDiv now builds on this model to provide training, coaching and peer support programs with the goal of expanding people's understanding of how trauma impacts all of us and providing strategies on how to build trauma informed communities. We truly believe that when we focus on the needs of people impacted by trauma, we will drive a revolution of compassion and innovation in our communities.
Our Team
Executive & Operations
Emily Santiago LEP, NCSP
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April Brown
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Instructors & Facilitators
Roxy Pittman MS, NCSP
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Mari Lopez, MS, LEP, AMFT
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Amanda McKerracher, PhD, MA, LEP
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Meryl Roberts, MEd
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James Juarez, MD, DipPH
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Sarah Lamanuzzi, MD
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Gabe Mayland, MD
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Jeremy Rothenberg, LAc, MSTCM, DipOM
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Terra Tolley, PhD
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Advisory Board
Greg Jennings, PhD
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Peggy Brandt Brown, PhD
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Robin Leveilee, PhD
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Sarah Shaw MPH, PMP
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Peer Support Session Facilitators Needed
The Center for Cognitive Diversity needs more facilitators! We are looking for compassionate empathetic people with excellent communication and organizational skills to join our team.
The Center for Cognitive Diversity 2020
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