Sally is a Child Psychologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, where she provides clinical mental health treatment, conducts assessments, and offers group developmental interventions for young children and their families. Much of her work over the past decade has focused on meeting the specialized needs of low-income children, children involved in the child welfare system, and children of Spanish-speaking immigrant families. She is also trained in the basic sciences and holds a doctorate in Infectious Disease and Immunology from U.C. Berkeley, where she did research on virulence factors related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission. Her interest in education is partly borne out of her personal experience as the daughter and granddaughter of early childhood educators, as well as an enriching experience attending a burgeoning progressive independent school in Atlanta, GA that has since grown into a thriving institution. She is a long-time EBI parent that sees a similar positive trajectory for EBI as it moves into its 3rd decade graduating exceptional bilingual students. She is the parent of two EBI graduates.