Management Team
Deborah Carlisle Solomon has been the Executive Director of RIE since 2006. She is a RIE Associate and teaches the RIE Foundations, Parent-Infant Guidance, Before Baby and Nurturing Nanny courses. Deborah has presented at various national and international conferences and workshops, and studied at the Pikler Institute in 2005 and 2006. Prior to her work at RIE, Deborah produced in various formats, including theatre and special events.
Melani Ladygo has been the Office Manager of RIE since 2008. She is a RIE Associate who has a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development from California State University, Los Angeles. Melani also teaches Parent-Infant Guidance classes and the RIE Foundations course. In addition, Melani has presented workshops on RIE’s Educaring™ Approach in a variety of conference settings. Melani spent nearly ten years working in a child care center, where she was initially introduced to Magda Gerber’s Educaring™ Approach and worked as an Infant/Toddler Master Lead Teacher.
Katie Rosinsky has been more or less involved with RIE her whole life, beginning when she was a baby in a Parent-Infant Guidance class at the original RIE location in Silver Lake. She believes it was this early introduction to the Educaring™ Approach that has helped her in every aspect of life, at every age. Following in her mother’s path, Katie is also a Feldenkrais practitioner (GCFP). Her sister, Jenny Rosinsky, is a RIE teacher living in New York. Since early 2011, Katie has been putting her administrative skills to use in the RIE office, working alongside Deborah and Melani.