Lorrie Walker Of Safe Kids Buckle Up Tips For At Home Car Seat Installation

Lorrie Walker

Training Manager & Technical Advisor, Safe Kids Buckle Up

Lorrie is the training manager and technical advisor for the Safe Kids Buckle Up program, where she develops community-based educational programs on vehicle safety and oversees the national training program for more than 300 Safe Kids coalitions throughout the United States. Lorrie also currently serves as the curriculum committee chair for the National Child Passenger Safety Board.

Lorrie has more than 20 years experience in the traffic safety field, predominately in the areas of child passengers, bikes, school buses, children with special health care needs, teen drivers, teen passengers, and pedestrian safety.

Prior to working in Washington D.C. with Safe Kids, she served as the director of the Florida Traffic Safety Resource Center and assistant professor of research at Florida Atlantic University. She was also the program administrator of the Traffic Injury Prevention Project at the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania Chapter for more than a decade.

As an advocate for child safety and injury prevention, Lorrie is a nationally certified child passenger safety instructor, has consulted on numerous studies, published articles, and routinely participates as an expert panel member for NHTSA and other organizations.

Lorrie holds a bachelor's degree from Eastern College in St. Davids, Penn., and a master of science from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She worked for nine years as an adjunct professor in the Health Administration and Health Education Departments in both the graduate and undergraduate schools at St. Joseph's University.