Elise Geithner is a pediatric acute care nurse with a background in pediatric palliative care, home hospice, and working with families of children with chronic critical illness. She is currently studying to be a pediatric nurse practitioner at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include compassion fatigue in pediatric medical professionals, supporting the developmental needs of children with chronic critical illness in the hospital and at home, and early integration of palliative care in the treatment plans for children with life-limiting conditions. She completed her Bachelors in Arts in Human Biology at Stanford University, with a concentration in child development. She earned her Bachelors in Science of Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Palliative Care from the University of Washington's Palliative Care Training Center.

Janae Peters completed her clinical social work training at the Smith College School for Social Work. She is an educator who actively integrates clinical social work into all aspects of the educational environment. She spends most of her time working with high school students at the Mastery School of Hawken, a school working to transform education by fiercely centering student learning and growth, and graduate students at Smith College School for Social Work, where she has taught Group Theory and Practice and School Social Work. Additionally, she is actively engaged in the pilot stages of founding Prolific Shifts, a cohort space for Black educators and leaders to engage in personal and professional development. In every realm, she has engaged a relational and process oriented approach to learning with and supporting others and always has a highest goal of understanding how different social, political, historical, and environmental contexts influence our capacities for learning, growth, and transformation.

Pam Roy is a philanthropist, investor, businesswoman, and community leader with a mission to provide transformational community-based mental health support for families and youth. She is co-founder of Straight Up Impact, a company at the intersection of film and social impact. As part of their Meaning in Madness film series, she collaborated with Big Picture Learning, to create B-Unbound, a community platform that connects 14-24-year-olds to supportive adults and peers around shared interests. It runs parallel to school systems and is free to all youth. Recognizing the key role meaning plays in wellness, Pam is the co-founder of the Viktor Frankl Institute of America and co-author of “The Inspiring Wisdom of Viktor E. Frankl.” She writes a blog that inspires and challenges parents to look at systemic issues affecting youth mental health and wellbeing.

Dr. Erika A. Thomas-Collins is a Doctoral Limited License Psychologist and Licensed Professional Counselor. She received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Michigan School of Psychology and her Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Phoenix. Additionally, she is a Nationally Certified Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and Approved Clinical Supervisor. Dr. Erika has been working in the Mental Health field since 2008, obtaining experience in case management, home-based therapy, individual, couples, family, and group therapy, psychiatric hospital intake, and supervision/management. In 2013 Dr. Erika established her own private practice located in New Haven, Michigan. Dr. Erika’s area of interest and dissertation research was focused on racial identity development for Multiracial individuals. Her areas of clinical specialty include mood disorders, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD/trauma.

Dr. Alexandra M. Ingram completed her education and training in clinical psychology at Arizona State University, as well as clinical internship in health service and postdoctoral fellowship in couples and family psychology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Jackson, MS and Charleston, SC. Her research and clinical focus include children and families affected by adversity (e.g., divorce, bereavement, severe mental illness) and interventions to promote resilience and recovery from developmental, interpersonal, and systems-based approaches. She looks forward to continuing dissemination of published research and access to clinical interventions for at-risk groups in her current role as project director of AC Groups.

Dr. Tracy Juliao is a fully licensed health psychologist who owns an integrative mental healthcare practice with multiple locations in southeast Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University's Teachers College. Professionally, Dr. Juliao has worked as a clinician, a business owner/leader, and an instructor at several universities for over 20 years. Dr. Juliao's early research interests included women's multiple roles via a health lens. Growing out of her research, all aspects of her clinical work and teaching have continued to focus on integrative health, trauma, shame, energy psychology, and a whole person perspective, which has resulted in a lifetime of advanced education and certification in healing modalities in those speciality areas.

Dr. Jenny Reese is the Section Head of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, and Associate Vice Chair for Faculty Well-being, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine. In addition to her clinical work as a hospitalist, she is also the Medical Director for Provider Well-being, Children's Hospital Colorado, leading work promoting well-being for health care providers at Children's Hospital Colorado, and Department of Pediatrics. This work focuses on understanding and mitigating burnout and promoting resilience for health care providers, including research interests in quality improvement. She enjoys facilitating workshops and public speaking on these topics.

Dr. Megan Smith's areas of expertise include maternal mental health, postpartum depression, childhood poverty, and community-based interventions. Megan received her MPH degree at the Yale University School of Public Health, and her doctoral degree in Maternal and Child Health at Boston University School of Public Health. While an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine, she created an innovative community-based program: the Mental health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership. She remains involved with the MOMS program as Founder and Director, and is currently working to transform systems of mental health care for low-income women at the state level, with a focus on reducing mental health inequities related to race, ethnicity, and poverty, Megan serves as Principal Investigator on studies ranging from the epidemiology of depressive and anxiety disorders in the perinatal period to the use of mobile health technology to reduce depression in mothers.

Amelia Walker (she/her) is a clinical social worker based out of southeast Michigan. She completed her social work training at the University of Michigan, focusing on integrated health and interdisciplinary treatment. Amelia works with clients of all ages with a focus on supporting the LGBTQIA2S+ community. She approaches her work with radical acceptance and centers clients’ needs and goals in her therapeutic approach; meeting clients where they are at is her priority. She has experience using DBT informed practice, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, CBT, and Trauma Focused CBT. Creating and fostering community relationships that are supportive, beneficial, and healing remains at the center of her practice.