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Alex is the former President of the Utah Association for Infant Mental Health (UAIMH) where she was also the inaugural chair of Professional Development & Training. In each of her UAIMH board and committee roles, Alex contributed to the roll-out of Infant Mental Health Endorsement® (IMHE® ) and Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement® (ECMH-E®) in Utah. As a member of Utah’s IMHE® Leadership Cohort, in Summer 2022, Alex was one of the first eight professionals in Utah to earn endorsement through the national Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health.
In her broader professional fields, Alex has served as a conference proposal reviewer for AERA, as a conference volunteer for the Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), and as a reviewer for international peer-reviewed journals in qualitative research and in early childhood education. Alex served as the editorial assistant for the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series 2016 special issue on “Life in Inclusive Classrooms: Storytelling with Disability Studies in Education”. She is also a former Student Editorial Board member of the American Journal of Education.
At Weber State University, Alex served on the Faculty Senate’s Teaching and Learning Committee. She has been recognized by the WSU Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning as a campus leader in inclusive pedagogy, recruited to support the internal Thrive Symposium, and to facilitate university-wide discussions and workshops around neurodiversity and inclusive curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in higher education.
Each semester at Weber State, Alex served as faculty advisor to 50+ undergraduate students in Early Childhood and Early Childhood Education programs. She also served on the admission & retention committees for the departments of Child & Family Studies and of Teacher Education. Alex was the Child and Family Studies Department Liaison and Advisor for the Weber State University Bachelors of Integrated Studies (BIS) program. She enjoyed serving on capstone project committees for students pursuing BIS degrees, which included a project using picture books and open-ended discussions to support preschool-aged children’s understanding of death, and a second project on disseminating mental health-informed approaches for survivors of child trafficking, including navigating and combatting politically- motivated misinformation on child trafficking. Alex served on Weber State’s Research, Scholarship, and Professional Growth (RSPG) committee, responsible for reviewing and funding internal grant proposals. She was a founding member of the Moyes College of Education Justice and Equity Committee. Alex is also the former Vice Chair of the Weber State University public Charter Academy Kindergarten’s Board of Directors.
During her time at Penn State, Alex served as the President of the Disability Studies Student Group, as a member of the University Libraries’ Accessibility Committee, and as a member of the College of Education’s Diversity and Community Enhancement Committee (DCEC). She served as a representative on the Curriculum & Instruction Department Student Council, as secretary and Early Childhood Education Liaison for the Curriculum & Instruction Graduate Student Association (CIGSA), and supported the Pennsylvania Educational Equity Project in outreach efforts. Alex previously served as a Volunteer Coordinator for TEDxPSU and as treasurer for the Penn State campus chapter of Active Minds. In 2015, she directed a fluid workshop on Dramatic Puppet Play at the 6th Annual Play Mini-Conference for NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child.
Alex Collopy Rosenwald, Ph.D. 