Lisa Kaplan Shaanan, MS OTR/L TMHP, is an Adjunct Professor at Santa Fe Community College, a thought leader, and innovator in early childhood education and therapeutic intervention. Her work includes professional learning, coaching, advocacy work, therapy, and consulting to individuals, families and institutions. Lisa is the founder of Early Education Equity and the driving force behind it. It is a mission.

For over 25 years, Lisa’s work focused on driving equity for children from a wide range of ethnic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds and diverse abilities, as well their families and the professionals who support them. After years of continuous improvements, Lisa’s professional development programs are now widely and repeatedly used by education organizations for their educators , therapists, and administrators, with some programs designed for families. In recent years, these have become a mainstay in more than 11 California counties in Federal, State, Blended and Privately funded early childhood programs. 

With the success of these programs, Lisa founded Early Education Equity, LLC to be the vehicle through which workshops and services in a variety of areas are provided by Lisa and a cohort of experienced and recognized professionals. These include typical and atypical development of young children, Teacher-Child Interactions, Social Emotional development, Leadership Development, Learning Environment Design, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Gross, Fine and Oral Motor Development, Dual Language Development, STEM, and Sensory Processing. She is also a certified Beginning Together Inclusion Facilitator and endorsed as a Transdisciplinary Mental Health Practitioner. Lisa is certified as a Master Trainer in ECE in the State of New Mexico.