Cammy Purper has been an educator for the past 30 years. She was an early educator for 20 years working in both public and private educational contexts with children from birth to 4th grade. She also served in leadership as a director of early childhood programs and worked with families as a parent educator. For the past 18 years she has also worked as a university professor, preparing preservice teachers and early childhood educators and interventionists to work in the field. In 2015, she earned her PhD in Education from Claremont Graduate University, and she is now a Professor of Education and Director of Online Education in the Bonnie G. Metcalf School of Education at CBU in Riverside.