Joannie Busillo-Aguayo
POSITION: Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT: Educational Psychology and Counseling
EMAIL: jaguayo@csun.edu
PHONE: 818-677-5275
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? I can provide guidance about a career teaching in early childhood education settings, collaborating with community-based organizations, building effective relationships with families, as well as, careers in public policy and advocacy, and leadership development in entry through advanced early childhood professionals.
ABOUT: Dr. Joannie Busillo-Aguayo has worked in both academic and nonprofit institutions designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating new community-based programs serving young children and families in low-income communities. Her research interests include identifying ways to strengthen and support families of young children, to promote campus-community collaboration, and to enhance service-learning partnerships between students and early childhood programs in the community. For 12 years, she was the assistant coordinator of the CSUN’s Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences’ Transdisciplinary Early Intervention Program, serving infants and toddlers with development challenges and their families. Dr. Busillo-Aguayo has been a member of the CSUN community since 1991, earning her bachelor’s degree in Child Development (1993) and a master’s degree from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences/Family Relations-Child Development (1996). She earned her doctorate in 2010 from Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology/Organizational Leadership.
Holli Tonyan
POSITION: Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT:Psychology
EMAIL: holli.tonyan@csun.edu
PHONE: 818-677-4970
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU? I can provide general guidance about careers in psychology, early childhood (e.g., centers and family child care homes, but also home visiting, coaching, providing technical assistance, resource and referral), policy, and social work. I can provide more detailed and specific guidance around careers related to child care (also called “day care”): research, policy, program design and evaluation.
ABOUT: I started as an assistant in an infant classroom of a child care center, but most of my career has been in research to better understand the characteristics of interactions and child care settings that influence children’s development. I worked for three years in a teacher preparation program for early childhood education in Melbourne, Australia. My research currently focuses on family child care homes: child care that takes place in the provider’s own home.