Michael Nunno is a Senior Extension faculty of the College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, past Principal Investigator of the NYS Child Protective Services Training Institute and current Principal Investigator of the Residential Child Care Project at the Family Life Development Center. He has written or edited articles and book chapters in the Child Protective Services Team Handbook and Understanding Abusive Families , Child Abuse and Neglect: An International Journal , Children and Society , Protecting Children , Children and Youth Services Review , Applied Developmental Science , and the Journal of Child and Youth Care . He is the lead editor for the book For our own safety: Examining the safety of high-risk intervention for children and young people published by the Child Welfare League of America.

He is a current member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and its Expert Faculty Program, and served as a panel member and reviewer for the Child Welfare League of America's Best Practices Guidelines for Child Maltreatment in Foster Care. He has expertise in the identification and etiology of familial and institutional child abuse and neglect, forensic interviewing, fatality and critical incident reviews in residential care, the reduction of aggressive critical incidents in residential facilities, training and evaluation of performance competencies, and organizational assessment to implement crisis prevention systems in residential child-care and hospital facilities.

Michael Nunno received his A.B from St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, his M.S.W. from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, and his D.S.W. in Social Welfare Policy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.