About

Mariana Bissonnette (she/her) is an early childhood educator with AMI Montessori teaching credentials for ages 0-6 and has extensive work with children and parents as a parenting coach and classroom teacher. After seeing a gap between parents and early childhood educators in the first years of life, Mariana founded a community program, PEACE (Parent Education and Child Empowerment) to connect with parents through life’s earliest and most critical stage of development. Mariana was born, raised, and is currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband (also a Montessori educator), two children, and two dogs. Babies Build Toddlers is her first book.