Susan E. Craig Biography

Susan E. Craig, PhD, earned a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Miami and completed her doctorate in sociology at the University of New Hampshire. She is a permanent student of early trauma and its effects on children’s learning. Her teaching experiences, as well as years of on-site training and technical assistance to school districts throughout the country, provides the context for her advocacy for trauma-sensitive educational reform. Dr. Craig writing career began in 1992, with an article in Phi Delta Kappa describing the educational needs of children living with violence. Her work received special notice in the now famous “purple book” Helping Traumatized Children Learn (2005) published by Massachusetts Advocates for Children: Trauma and Policy Initiative. Her book Reaching and Teaching Children Who Hurt: Strategies for Your Classroom (2008) is a bestseller among teachers and administrators, who use it to guide their efforts to make schools more accessible to children with challenging behaviors. Dr. Craig was among those interviewed in the Safe Start National Resource Center series, profiling women who have made an impact on the issue of children’s exposure to violence in 2013.

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