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Dr. Joannie Busillo-Aguayo New Assistant Professor at CSUN

California State University, Northridge hired Dr. Busillo-Aguayo as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling. 

Dr. Busillo-Aguayo has been a member of the CSUN community since 1991, when she transferred from Pierce College to complete a bachelor’s degree in Child Development; subsequently, she earned a master’s degree from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences/Family Relations-Child Development. She earned her doctorate in 2010 from Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology/Organizational Leadership.

Dr. Busillo-Aguayo’s research interests include identifying ways to strengthen and support families of young children, promoting campus-community collaboration, and enhancing service-learning partnerships between students and early childhood programs in the community. For 12 years, she was the assistant coordinator of the CSUN Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences’ Transdisciplinary Early Intervention Program, serving infants and toddlers with developmental challenges and their families. For the past five years, she has supported a community-based non-profit organization in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating a new community-based program serving young children and families in the low-income, predominately Latino community of Canoga Park.

As a part-time instructor from 2004-2011, Dr. Busillo-Aguayo taught courses in Child Advocacy and Theories of Development for the Department of Child and Adolescent Development in CSUN’s College of Health and Human Development.