Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute, and recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, and the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol™.

Serene Thin Elk is a Lakota/Dakota clinical addiction and mental health therapist, mother of four children, and member of the Ihanktonwan and Sicangu Oyate in South Dakota. She is the Community Programs Director with South Dakota Urban Indian Health and seeks to integrate culture and spirituality into community healing models. She is passionate about intergenerational healing and educating others on how historical traumas translate to the present-day experiences of Native people.

Fleet Maull, PhD is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, social entrepreneur, and peacemaker. He founded the Prison Mindfulness Institute and the National Prison Hospice Association while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence, and later, the transformational education platform Heart Mind Institute. He also co-founded the Engaged Mindfulness Institute where he trains trauma-informed mindfulness teachers to work with people impacted by trauma and marginalization. He is the author of multiple books, including Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good.

Claudia Peña is the co-founding Director of the Center for Justice at UCLA and is on the faculty at UCLA School of Law and in the Gender Studies Department. Her work addresses how trauma intersects with the legal system. She teaches both students and attorneys how to practice trauma and healing-informed lawyering and advocacy and has trained a multitude of legal service providers, including those serving vulnerable communities.  Claudia is a restorative and transformative justice practitioner, an artist, and the former Executive Director of For Freedoms.

Barbara Easterlin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, a member of the American Psychological Association’s Climate Change Psychology Community of Scholars and Practitioners, and Co-President of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. Her work centers on the impact of climate change and environmental injustice on mental health, and the benefits that arise from emotionally informed activism.