Monica Mathur-Kalluri

Overview

Monica Mathur-Kalluri is a Project Director on WestEd’s Early Childhood Intervention, Mental Health, and Inclusion team. A daughter of proud immigrants, Mathur-Kalluri is a leader and voice who embraces culture, language, and traditions. As a Project Director, she engages with practitioners, parents, and state and community leaders to enhance the well-being of infants and toddlers, their families, and the prenatal-to-5 professionals who support them.

Mathur-Kalluri identifies as Indo-Canadian and focuses on creating training and reflective practice spaces to promote individual and collective well-being and healing for prenatal-to-5 providers, particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Her work aims to build systems that recognize trauma while centering healing and community well-being. She strives to support providers in building agency to individually and collectively take on the rebuilding of systems toward more just, sustainable, equitable, and supportive environments for themselves, children, and families. Her efforts are rooted in her background as an occupational therapist, which equips her with a unique perspective and innovative approaches to listen to community needs and work holistically and collaboratively to create responsive systems.

She is a Zero to Three Fellow and a regular speaker at national conferences focused on children prenatal to 5 and their families. 

Education

• OTD, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California
• B.Sc. (O.T.), Occupational Therapy, The University of British ColumbiaThe University of British Columbia