Child Advocate; Social Worker; Child Abuse Investigator; Founder and CEO, Kros Learning Group; Trained by principal investigator Dr. Robert Anda on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study; Past Director of the National At-Risk Education Network (NAREN); Recipient of the 2019 "Advocate of the Year" Award from the Maryland State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect and Maryland Essentials for Childhood; Author, The Upside Down Organization: Reinventing Group Care (2008) and Creating the Upside Down Organization: Transforming Staff to Save Troubled Children (2005)