Associate Professor of Practice, Curriculum and Instruction
Ingrid Mari Anderson, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of Practice at Portland State University, serving in both the College of Education and the School of Social Work. She coordinates the Infant/Toddler Mental Health Graduate Certificate and supports trauma-informed workforce development through her work with Trauma Informed Oregon.
Her teaching, research, and community partnerships focus on the emotional lives of early childhood educators, the mental health of young children and their families, and the development of culturally and linguistically sustaining systems of care. Anderson collaborates across disciplines to build trauma-informed, inclusive, and strengths-based professional learning experiences. She is especially committed to supporting early educators in rural and historically underrepresented communities.
Since 2015, she has secured more than $6 million in grants and philanthropic support for student scholarships, professional development and applied research. Her most recent work includes developing multilingual training cohorts in trauma-informed care, supporting community-led program design in Indigenous and Black excellence cohorts, and co-authoring a workbook on early educator well-being.
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