Micah has worked or trained in child welfare since May 2008, as a family preservation therapist for two years, a CWTAP intern on the Office of Indian Child Welfare in Seattle for two years, and then five years for Children’s Administration as a line worker and supervisor in the Kent and King West offices, in Child and Family Welfare Services.

Sherry Colomb is a Development and Facilitation Specialist working with the Caregiver Training Team. With a background in Elderly/Disabled Adult case management, Sherry’s interest in child welfare began with her decision to become foster parent in 2005. Training and support were essential in her personal journey as a foster and adoptive parent, and she now feels privileged to be able to support other caregivers in this way.

Andrew Katz is a Data Analyst at CEDR currently working on projects related to teacher preparation, strategic district partnerships, and teacher staffing challenges.

Dr. Dan Goldhaber is the Director of the Center for Education Data & Research and a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. He is also the Director of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and a Vice-President at American Institutes of Research (AIR). Dan previously served as an elected member of the Alexandria City School Board from 1997-2002, as an Associate Editor of Economics of Education Review and an editor of Education Finance and Policy.

Phoebe has been working in the behavioral health field with a focus on youth and family wellbeing for over 40 years.  Her career path includes working in substance abuse treatment settings, K-12 schools, best practice program delivery to youth and parents, supporting youth prevention clubs, and active engagement in community coalitions.  Her experience also includes working alongside school administrative teams in enhancing district level protocols/policy improvements, student survey coordination and supervising prevention grants and staff in three King County public school districts.

While completing a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Human Development and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Psychology at Washington State University in 2001, Amanda discovered the field of Child Welfare. There she was propelled into the MSW program at Eastern Washington University and participated in the CWTAP Program, graduating in 2004.

Charina has 9 years of experience with Children’s Administration and began with the agency as an Afterhours staff.   She most recently worked as Supervisor for Children’s Administration supervising Child and Family Welfare Services (CFWS), Child Protective Services (CPS), Family Assessment Response (FAR), Family Reconciliation Services (FRS), Indian Child Welfare (ICW) and other specialty programs. Prior, she was Social & Health Program Consultant in the Family to Family Program, and a CPS and CFWS social worker in ICW.

Kendra Roberson (she/her) is a mother of two adult sons, wife, daughter and friend. She has been teaching at the University of Washington regularly since 2008 and has taught on both the Seattle and Tacoma campuses. She and a colleague helped design the first fully asynchronous social work course for the School of Social Work (prior to COVID-19). She also maintains a private, virtual mental health practice in Texas, Washington and Maryland, Psychotherapy + Plus, focusing primarily on trauma-healing using brain- and body-based healing methods such as EMDR and Brainspotting. Dr.

Reneé brings years of experience in working with families to her position with the Alliance. Currently she is involved in developing and training curriculum for special trainings around effects of trauma, children and youth along with attachment and family. She works as part of the Strive team, where she trains Family Time Navigators in the Strive curriculum to help parents have productive family time with their children. Reneé  coaches and mentors navigators helping them gain skills to use while working with families.