About me
Andy has worked in the early intervention / early care and education field for over 30 years. Since receiving a master's in social work from the University of East London he has worked with children with Autism and their families in New York, and coordinating early intervention and intellectual and developmental disability (I/DD) services for infants, toddlers, and children and their families on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, before moving to New Mexico. He was the director of early intervention (Part C) in NM for over 20 years, and during that time was the President of the IDEA Infant Toddler Coordinators Association, presented at national conferences and on several national workgroups. In NM Andy played a leadership role in building a strong early learning system across programs (including child care, PreK, home visiting, Head Start, and preschool special education), was appointed to the NM Early Learning Advisory Council, and wrote and managed the Preschool Development Grant - Birth - 5. Since leaving the state in 2019, he has been an independent consultant with Public Consulting Group (PCG), which has included working on early childhood systems projects with AL, CO, CT, DE, FL, IL, ME, MI, NJ, NM, OK, PA, SD, and UT. Andy also headed up a national initiative funded through ECTA promoting Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) policies and practices within early intervention (Part C).