Aly Frei, M.N. is a Project Manager for Public Strategies with over 17 years of experience in the HMRE and curriculum development and dissemination fields.  She has served as project director and implementation strategist for several multi-site federal subcontracts, including randomized-controlled clinical trials of HMRE interventions, and is a seasoned leader in implementation design, training and technical assistance.  Ms. Frei also serves as the Director of Becoming Parents Program, Inc., an agency focused on equipping expectant parents with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to be great partners over the transition to parenthood and beyond. Ms. Frei has authored and co-authored more than seven adaptations of HMRE curricula targeted at improving relationship and health outcomes for new parent couples and their children, including adaptations for cultural relevance among Spanish-speaking, married and unmarried, and socially and economically disadvantaged populations.

Galena Rhoades, Ph.D. is a Research Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Denver. Her research is on romantic relationship development and functioning, and the related implications for children and adults. Her research projects and collaborations include 1) basic science studies on commitment, cohabitation, intimate partner violence, infidelity, family background, relationship processes and psychopathology, military families, and adolescent and child adjustment as well as 2) studies on the effectiveness of community-based preventive relationship interventions for couples and individuals. In these areas, she has authored more than 100 publications. She is working as a PI, Co-I, evaluator or consultant on several foundation and federally-funded projects. She has specific training and expertise in data analyses related to longitudinal and intervention effectiveness data and has taught doctoral level courses on multilevel modeling and structural equation modeling. She has served as the statistician or statistical consultant on a number of projects, many of which involve the evaluation of relationship education programs and their impacts on child and adults.