Haruko identifies as a cisgendered woman and an immigrant from Japan, who is committed to promoting healing-centered work in communities and organizations through building relationships.  Over the last 20+ years, Haruko has worked with Early Supports for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT), early care and learning, child-welfare, and community mental health systems in King County, seeking to understand the impact of adversity on early relationships and advocating for system-level transformation on behalf of young children families.  Her clinical work and workforce development efforts have been influenced by her lived experiences and teaching from the communities she has served, many of whom are low-income and families of color, as well as her ongoing learning from her ancestors, mentors, and colleagues.  Haruko trains Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health clinicians across Washington State; she is a Leadership Fellow and an instructor at University of Washington Barnard Center on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Advanced Clinical Training Program and a Washington State trainer on Child-Parent Psychotherapy, a trauma intervention for young children and their caregivers.