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Paige Pannozzo

BIRCh Center Research Assistant, School psychology doctoral student, UMass Amherst

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Melissa M. Pearrow, PhD

Executive Director, BIRCh Center

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Melissa M. Pearrow, PhD serves as the executive director of the BIRCh Center and has been an professor in the School Psychology PhD Program at UMass Boston for 15 years

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Minelia Rodriguez

BIRCh Center Research Assistant

School psychology doctoral student, UMass Boston

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Kristina Ruggeri

BIRCh Center Research Assistant, School psychology doctoral student, UMass Boston

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A smiling white woman with long brown hair and red fingernails sits at a wooden table in front of a white background
Julie Tanguay

BIRCh Center Research Assistant

School psychology doctoral student, UMass Amherst

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Sara Whitcomb, PhD

Co-Director of BIRCh Center; Associate Director of Research and Evaluation, Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships

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Sara Whitcomb, PhD, is Co-Director of BIRCh Center and Associate Director of Research and Evaluation at Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships.

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