Staff Listings

Faculty, staff, and National Facilitators at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center represent a multi-disciplinary team of change agents, early child development educators, psychologists, pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and other early child development and behavior experts, professional development trainers, project directors, program evaluators, statisticians, community engagement professionals, and more.

Maha Ali, BA

Research Assistant


Team: Research and Evaluation

Phone: (857) 218-4361

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Maha

Kim Alleyne, MCP, EdD

Director, Community Partnerships; Research & Evaluator Grants and Contracts Administrator


Simple icon of a human used as a placeholder when no image is available.

Team: Professional Development, Research and Evaluation

Phone: (857) 218-4339

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Kim

Catherine Ayoub, MN, EdD

Director of Research and Evaluation; Executive Director, Family Connections Mental Health Consultation; Staff Facilitator; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Senior Attending Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital


Team: Mental Health, Professional Development, Research and Evaluation

Phone: (857) 218-4374

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Catherine

Emma Bishop, MA

Research Coordinator II


Simple icon of a human used as a placeholder when no image is available.

Team: Research and Evaluation

Phone: (617) 919-6056

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Emma

Lindsay Boyer, MS

Research Coordinator


Team: Research and Evaluation

Phone: (857) 218-3887

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Lindsay

Jillian Brashear, MPH

Research Coordinator


Team: Research and Evaluation

Phone: (857) 218-3805

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Jillian

Eurnestine Brown, PhD

Program Director, Director of Relational Equity and Belonging; Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Access, Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; Senior Strategic Advisor on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Anti-Racism, Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center, Boston Children's Hospital


Team: Communications, Development, and Outreach, Professional Development, Research and Evaluation

Phone: (617) 355-6000

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Eurnestine

Katherine Buttitta, PhD

Research & Evaluation Lead II; Senior Data Analyst; Staff Scientist, Boston Children's Hospital


headshot of Katherine Buttitta

Team: Research and Evaluation

Phone: (857) 218-3918

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Katherine

Joelfré Grant, MAT

Research & Evaluation Associate, Tribal Liaison, National Facilitator


Picture of Joelfre Grant

Team: National Facilitators, Research and Evaluation

Phone: (406) 250-0442

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Joelfré

Grace Harrington, MPH

Research Coordinator


Team: Research and Evaluation

Phone: 617-919-0619 X40619

Email: [email protected]

Read more about Grace