Christy Tirrell-Corbin

Tirrell-Corbin is the Executive Director of the Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention, as well as the Director of the Early Childhood/Early Childhood Special Education teacher education program, at the University of Maryland. Tirrell-Corbin is an award-winning faculty member having been acknowledged for her scholarship, teaching and service. Tirrell-Corbin worked in foster care and adoption in New York City earlier in her career. Tirrell-Corbin views that experience as foundational to her career as a researcher where she focuses on young children at risk due to adversity, specifically those residing in low-resourced communities. Tirrell-Corbin has also worked extensively in Title I (high poverty) schools around issues of race, culture and trauma. Tirrell-Corbin is the co-Director of the Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy (TSP) project, currently being piloted in a mid-Atlantic elementary school. Tirrell-Corbin has been the Principal Investigator on numerous early childhood focused grants that include external evaluations, curriculum design and implementation, and trauma informed schools. Tirrell-Corbin's research has been published and presented both nationally and internationally and funded by public, philanthropic and organizational entities. Tirrell-Corbin has also served as a consultant for PBS, National Geographic and Sesame Workshop.