Mariana Bissonnette (she/her) is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and AMI 0-6 trained Montessorian working with parents, teachers, trainees, and school leaders in implementing Montessori on either side of the classroom doors. She earned her AMI 3-6 diploma from the Montessori Teacher Training Center of Northern California in 2011 and earned her AMI 0-3 diploma from Montessori Northwest in 2016. She has over a decade of work in Montessori classrooms, is a Montessori school administrator, and has supported over 2500 families with group and 1:1 support through her parent education program, The PEACE Program (Parent Education and Child Empowerment). Mariana is also the author of the award-winning book, Babies Build Toddlers: A Montessori Guide to Parenting the First 18 Months. Her work centers the depth of the Montessori method in service of the child’s liberation from oppressive systems that constrain their ability to develop as they are trying to. Mariana has recently begun her journey to become an AMI Primary Trainer and is working with Montessori Northwest in pursuit of that achievement.