2024 Alliance Board Officers
(alphabetically by last name)
Lynette De Dios
Board Member (2024 - 2026)
Lynette De Dios, LCSW is a bilingual licensed clinical social worker with infant/early childhood clinical, classroom, and home visiting experience who opened her private practice more…
Harleen Hutchinson
Board Member (2024 - 2026)
Dr. Harleen Hutchinson, IMH-E® is a psychologist and social worker, an endorsed Infant Mental Health Clinical Mentor, and Executive Director of the Journey institute, Inc. Her life's work is centered more…
Jennifer Jonika
Board Member (2023-2025)
Jennifer Jonika, MS, LLP, IMH-E® (IMHM-P) is a Limited License Psychologist with 20 years of experience in the Infant and Early Childhood field more...
Cathy Liesman
Treasurer (2023 - 2024)
Cathy Liesman Catherine Liesman, PhD, IMH-E® is a Psychologist who worked at Development Centers for over 30 years. She was their Chief Operating Officer until recently more…
Amittia Parker
Board Member (2021 - 2024)
Dr. Amittia Parker, PhD, LMSW, MPA provides training and technical assistance for the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety at Georgetown’s Center for Child Health and Human Development. Her research, scholarship, and service focuses on advancing minority mental more…
Alison Peak
Board Member (inactive) (2023 - 2025)
Alison D. Peak LCSW, IMH-E is the Executive Director of Allied Behavioral Health Solutions in Nashville, TN. Alison has spent the majority of her career dedicated to two primary passions: integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings and Infant and Early more…
Joaniko Kohchi
Vice President (2024 - 2026)
Joaniko Kohchi, MPhil, LCSW, IECMH-E® is the Director of the Institute for Parenting and Postgraduate Programs in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at Adelphi University, where she enjoys teaching and supervising graduate and postgraduate more…
Danie Rice
Board Member (2024 - 2026)
Danielle (Danie) Rice, LCSW, IMH-E® is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a graduate of the University of Michigan. She is currently a dual-title doctoral student in Social Work and Infant Mental Health at Wayne State University. She has practiced in community mental more…
Carmen Rosa Noroña
Board Member (2023 - 2025)
Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E® is originally from Ecuador where she trained and practiced as a clinical psychologist. In the United States she obtained master’s degrees in social work and in early intervention. She serves as the Child Trauma more…
Kerrie Schnake
Board Member (2023-2025)
Kerrie L. Schnake, MA, IMH-E®, is a change agent bringing more than 20 years of experience working in infant and early childhood systems. She serves as the founder and CEO of South Carolina Infant Mental Health Association (SCIMHA) more…
Allie Sutherland
Board Member (2024 - 2026)
Allie Sutherland, MS, IMH-E® earned a BA in Mathematics from Denison University, but later discovered her true passion for Early Childhood. She holds a Master of Science in Child Development, with a specialization in more…
Gail Trujillo
Secretary (2021-2025)
Gail Trujillo is the Chair and Endorsement Coordinator of the Alaska Association for Infants and Early Childhood. She looks forward to bringing a diverse rural perspective more…
Meyleen Velasquez
President (2024); Board Member (2023)
Dr. Meyleen Velasquez, DSW, LCSW, LICSW, PMH-C, RPT-S™, is a Latina immigrant psychotherapist, trainer, and consultant specializing in infant and perinatal mental health. more…
Joni Zieldorff
Board Member (continuous)
Joni Zieldorff, LMSW, IECMH-E® is approaching two decades in the field of Infant Mental Health (IMH), delivering relationship-focused mental health therapy to infants and toddlers and their families in Wayne County, more…
Past Board Members
Carrie Banks Patterson (2017-2019)
Joy Browne (2017-2021)
Susan Dickstein (2017-2021)
Tanika Eaves (2022-2023)
Brandy Fox (2021-2024)
Sadie Funk (2017-2019)
Sheryl Goldberg (2017-2021)
Margaret Holmberg (2017-2021)
Fran Jozefowicz (2017-2022)
Catherine Liesman (2017-2021)
Rosalva Osorio (2022 - 2023)
Hilary Ratner (2017-2019)
Katherine Rosenblum (2017-2021)
Sarah Shea (2020-2022)
Mary Warren (2017-2019)
Angela Webster (2020-2022)
Karol Wilson (2020-2022)