Center for Cognitive Diversity

In 2017, as a University instructor in the Educational Psychology department at California State University East Bay, our founder, Emily Santiago worked with professors to develop the Trauma Informed Educator program. A year later, the Center for Cognitive Diversity (CogDiv) was established and our first certification cohort began. Our pioneering program is building experts across the US and abroad who can respond effectively to the needs of children with trauma, implement practices that promote equity and healing, and ensure all educators have the emotional capacity to prevent burnout. CogDiv now builds on this model to provide training, coaching and peer support programs with the goal of expanding people's understanding of how trauma impacts all of us and providing strategies on how to build trauma informed communities. We truly believe that when we focus on the needs of people impacted by trauma, we will drive a revolution of compassion and innovation in our communities.