Contact Us

Mailing Address:

University of Memphis
Office of CEED
410 Manning Hall
Memphis, TN 38152

Phone: 901.678.3589
Fax: 901.678.1665

Our Team

Loretta Rudd, PhD

Project Director, Clinical Associate Professor, and Program Coordinator for Child Development and Family Studies
lrudd@memphis.edu

Dr. Rudd has a doctoral degree in Educational Psychology with an emphasis on Human Development, a Master's and Bachelor's in Communication Disorders, and a Master's in Educational Administration. She has been the PI on 4 funded childcare training projects at 3 universities including a US DHHS grant for her dissertation study on the effects of training child caregivers. Dr. Rudd teaches undergraduate courses in child development, specializing in social, emotional, and language development.

Sonja Randall, MALS

CEED Project Manager, LENA Coordinator, IMH Specialist, Professor 
Sonja.randall@memphis.edu

Sonja has a Bachelor of Business Administration concentrating in Organizational Management, a Graduate Certificate in Grant Writing and Management, and a Master's in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in Urban Revitalization: Community and Personal Development. She is a managing and teaching professional with over 25 years of experience including business development, staff cultivation, marketing, and training in early childhood growth and development. She is an organizer of community training and provides technical assistance and support through detailed recruitment guided by specific State Rules and Regulations and the Code of Ethics. Sonja is a TN Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Initiative Facilitator, Ages & Stages (ASQ 3 & ASQ SE) Developmental Screening Trainer, Center for Social and Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (CSEFEL) Facilitator, Play safe, Be Safe Fire Prevention Trainer, Nurturing Parenting (NP) and Program for Infant and Toddler Care (PITC) Trainer and a Youth Mental Health First Aid Responder.  She is a professor teaching undergraduate courses in child development and ethics. 

Sandy Guntharp, MS

Clinical Assistant Faculty in Child Development and Family Studies
sgunthrp@memphis.edu

Sandy has a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Psychology and is working on a Doctorate in Special Education. She worked in mental health with children and their families for over 15 years and most recently worked at the University of Memphis for over ten years with child care providers as they pursued NAEYC accreditation. Currently, she is a clinical assistant professor teaching undergraduate courses in child development and supervising student interns.

Debra Bartelli, DrPH

Project Evaluator, Research Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health
dbrtelli@memphis.edu

Dr. Bartelli has a Master's and Doctoral degree in Public Health from Columbia University. Before her current position as a research associate professor in the UofM's School of Public Health, she spent more than 15 years conducting program evaluations for local, state, and national organizations and agencies. She has taught community research evaluation at the undergraduate and graduate levels and for the past year, Dr. Bartelli has provided evaluation assistance to three of the currently funded iIMPACT projects.

LENA START Coordinators

• Asia Fleming -  Le Bonheur Nurse Family Partnership, 38103
• Iletha Washington - St. Andrews CME Church, 38108
• Wendy Biggs - Miriam Childcare Center, 38134
• Melinda Satples - Raleigh, 38128
• Sharon Feilds - Pursuit of God Church, 38127
• Yuly Hernandez - Pursuit of God, Spanish sessions, 38134