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JULY 7 AT 9PM EST PETER LANGMAN, PHD
JULY 8 AT 9PM EST LIZA LONG, EDD•JEFF CORSON
JULY 9 AT 8PM EST SEN. CREIGH DEEDS•REP. LISA CUTTER
JULY 9 AT 9PM EST ANTHONY BIGLAN, PHD
JULY 10 AT 7:30PM EST CYNTHIA BULIK, PHD
JULY 10 AT 9PM EST DIANE CARLSON
JULY 11 AT 9PM EST RAÉ LUNDY, PHD•KRYSTAL ALLEN
JULY 13 AT 9PM EST KIMBERLY LEWIS•KATHERINE
WINTER-SELLERY
JULY 14 AT 9PM EST PAT GORMAN BARRY, PHD
JULY 15 AT 9PM EST CRYSTAL MILLER
JULY 16 AT 7:30PM EST SARAH DAVIDON, EDD
JULY 16 AT 9PM EST TOM INSEL, PHD

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Tuesday
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Peter Langman, PhD
Peter is a sought-after expert on the psy- land Security to participate in the National
chology of school shooters and other per- School Security Roundtable. Though his pri-
petrators of mass violence. He is currently mary focus is school shooters, he has spo-
the Director of Research and School Safety ken at FBI Headquarters on white suprem-
Training with Drift Net Securities. He con- acist homegrown violent extremists and on
ducts trainings on understanding the psy- American jihadis at the National Coun-
chology of school shooters and identifying terterrorism Center. Dr. Langman served
potential school shooters for professionals on Pennsylvania’s Joint State Government
in mental health, education, and law en- Commission’s Advisory Committee on Vio-
forcement. He has spoken on preventing lence Prevention. In the wake of the Sandy
school shootings at the FBI National Acad- Hook attack, his recommendations on pre-
emy in Quantico, VA and been hired by venting school shootings were presented
Homeland Security to train professionals in by the CEO of the American Psychological
school safety. He is also a researcher with Association to President Obama. His re-
the National Threat Assessment Center of search on school shooters has been cited
the United States Secret Service. In 2018 in congressional testimony on Capitol Hill.
he was invited by the Department of Home-

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Wednesday
9pm EST

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 Liza Long, EdD
Liza is an author, educator, and mother of the Today Show, Good Morning America,
four children, one of whom has bipolar dis- Erin Burnett Out Front, Anderson Cooper
order. Her book, The Price of Silence: A 360, Don Lemon, Dr. Oz, the Diane Rehm
Mom’s Perspective on Mental Illness was Show, NPR’s Weekend Edition, and other
a “Books for a Better Life” award winner. programs. She presented talks on children’s
Liza’s essays have appeared in USA To- mental health and stigma at TEDx San An-
day, the Huffington Post, Psychology To- tonio in October 2013 and at the Nation-
day, Time.com, The Mighty, MindBody- al Council for Behavioral Health in March
Green, Good Men Project, and Boise 2016. Liza’s dissertation research focused
State University’s The Blue Review, among on mental health advocacy and leadership
others. Since her essay “I Am Adam Lanza’s strengths.
Mother” went viral, she has appeared on

Jeff Corson
Jeff Corson graduated from the University Arapahoe High School and has witnessed
of California at Santa Barbara with de- not only the effects of situational trauma on
grees in Psychology and Business Econom- individuals, but also the systemic effects on
ics. He served as the Director of Education the community over time. But his greatest
at the American Arbitration Association in education has come from adopting four
Los Angeles. He loved teaching conflict children, two from Eastern Europe. Learn-
resolution for many years but ultimately ing to understand the effects of preverbal
developed a dream to teach and coach. trauma is a different challenge and he has
He then moved to Littleton to become a learned immensely from his kids and the
teacher. He currently teaches Advanced different ways they experience the world.
Placement Psychology, International Re- He has great compassion and empathy
lations, Western Civilization and Psychist- for parents with children that have experi-
ry. He lived through a school shooting at enced trauma.

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Thursday
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Senator Robert Creigh Deeds
Sen Deeds is an American politician serv- and Governor of Virginia in 2009. He is
ing as a member of the Senate of Virginia passionate about mental health for many
representing the 25th district since 2001. reasons, but foremost he had a son die by
Previously, he was the Democratic nominee suicide. He has passed legislation that re-
for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005 quires mental health to be taught in schools.

Representative Lisa Cutter

Lisa Cutter is an American politician who is Communications. Along with a partner, Lisa
a member of the Colorado House of Rep- was awarded the Grand Gold Pick for her
resentatives from the 25th district in Jeffer- work with Dr. Gloria Beam to leverage her
son County. After years of working in the appointment as the Chief Medical Officer
public relations and communications in- for the US Olympics in Sochi.
dustry, Lisa started her own business, Cutter

Anthony Biglan, PHD

Anthony Biglan is a Senior Scientist at Or- the Center for Advanced Study in the Be-
egon Research Institute. He is the author havioral Sciences published a book sum-
of Rebooting Capitalism and The Nurture marizing the epidemiology, cost, etiology,
Effect. Dr. Biglan has been conducting re- prevention, and treatment of youth with
search on the development and prevention multiple problems. He is a former president
of child and adolescent problem behav- of the Society for Prevention Research. He
ior for the past 30 years. In recent years, was a member of the Institute of Medicine
his work has shifted to more comprehen- Committee on Prevention, which released
sive interventions that have the potential to its report in 2009 documenting numerous
prevent the entire range of child and ad- evidence-based preventive interventions
olescent problems. He and colleagues at that can prevent multiple problems.

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Cynthia Bulik, PhD
Cynthia Bulik is a Distinguished Professor of also holds an adjunct appointment at the
Eating Disorders in the Department of Psy- Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She
chiatry of the School of Medicine at Uni- has been involved in the research and treat-
versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a ment of individuals with eating disorders
professor of Nutrition in the Gillings School since 1982. She received her BA from the
of Global Public Health, and founding di- University of Notre Dame and her MA and
rector of the UNC Center of Excellence for PhD in clinical psychology from the Univer-
Eating Disorders. Bulik is also professor in sity of California, Berkeley. She completed
the Department of Medical Epidemiology internships and post-doctoral fellowships at
and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet in the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Stockholm, Sweden, where she directs the in Pittsburgh, PA.
Centre for Eating Disorders Innovation. She

Diane Carlson
Diane Carlson is co-founder and Policy at the New York Federal Reserve Bank,
Director of Smart Colorado, a nonprofit building and running a successful human
organization with the sole goal of minimiz- resource staffing company, and leader-
ing negative impacts of marijuana use for ship positions in organizations focused on
adolescents. The organization has a seven youth wellness, leadership and engage-
year track record of informing policy mak- ment while championing and challenging
ers, media and community members about legislative policies that impacted K-12 edu-
today’s new and different high THC prod- cation and the welfare of Colorado youth.
ucts while securing high impact safeguards Diane has a B.A. in History/Economics
for kids. Diane’s past work experience in- from the University of Maryland, and a
cludes: work as a banking policy analyst Masters in Public Policy from Harvard.

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Saturday
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RAé Lundy, PHD
Dr. Raé N. N. Lundy is a licensed clinical mental health stigma. Dr. Lundy has re-
psychologist, mental health activist, TEDx ceived several grants including the Rising
Speaker, and the Associate Vice President Young Scholars Award from the American
for Student Health, Counseling, and Well- Association of Blacks in Higher Education.
ness at Wiley College. Her mission is to im- She serves on several boards most prom-
prove psychological health and wellbeing inently Stand Up Speak Out, a national
within communities of color by engaging nonprofit created to support survivors of
in honest conversations about self-care, sexual trauma.
fostering healing dialogue, and reducing

Krystal Allen
Krystal Hardy Allen is the Founder & CEO leaders within public education. A 2007
of K. Allen Consulting™, a doctoral candi- graduate of Notre Dame, Krystal’s work
date at Columbia University (NYC), and a and passion for culturally relevant practic-
former elementary & middle school Princi- es, adult learning, and social justice are the
pal. K. Allen Consulting is a national Pre-K driving forces and pillars within her lead-
education consulting firm that provides ership journey and personal story. She has
highly customized and transformative pro- been a guest of the White House under
fessional development services to school President Obama’s administration during
districts, nonprofits, and social impact busi- ESSA policy formulation; shadowed and
nesses nationwide. Having served over featured by national media, such as Yahoo
150+ schools and impacting up to 60,000 News, The Hechinger Report, Education
children thus far, the firm is also rooted in Weekly; and recognized and awarded
philanthropy to teachers and students, as locally for her commitment to children and
well as positioning themselves as thought families.

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Monday
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Kimberly Lewis
Kimberly Lewis is a teacher, consultant and fant Educarers] associate and has done
writer. She did her Waldorf Early Child- advanced trainings at the Pikler Institute in
hood training at Antioch University New Budapest. Kimberly helped edit the WE-
England, where she received a Master’s CAN publication “The Child From Birth To
degree. Her Master’s thesis is called, Three In Education and Care” and co-ed-
“Building Relationships” and was a study ited “Creating Connections” for WECAN
of purposefully designed spaces for young [Waldorf Early Childhood Association of
children. She is a RIE [Resources for In- North America], about Parent/Child work.

Katherine Winter-Sellery
Katherine Winter-Sellery is the CEO of to minimize misunderstandings and melt-
the Conscious Parenting Revolution and downs, and to communicate with more
co-creator of the Guidance Approach to collaboration, cooperation and consider-
Parenting, a program that applies con- ation. Passionately committed to healing in-
flict-resolution skills to communicating more ter-generational dysfunction, she is the host
effectively with children and adults. of three TEDx talks on listening for unmet
Through her popular training, she has taught needs, unconscious communication, and
thousands of parents, educators, and other speaking out, and she is the co-author of
professionals in a half dozen countries how three books on conscious parenting.

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Tuesday
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 Pat Gorman Barry, PhD
Pat has more than 25 years of experience port problem solving and decision-mak-
helping children, teenagers and adults ing. Program graduates have improved
learn skills to stop and think. She has under- social and emotional learning skills and in-
graduate degrees in nursing and sociology, creased executive functions. BrainWise has
and a Ph.D. from the University of Colora- been taught by thousands of instructors in
do, Boulder. Her professional background 46 states and 19 countries. Indian Health
includes migrant and public health nursing, Services recognizes BrainWise has a pro-
school nursing, and adolescent and adult gram that benefits Alaska Natives and
psychiatric nursing. She developed the Native Americans. The program is taught
BrainWise thinking skills program and is to parents, homeless adults, elderly in nurs-
founder of the namesake nonprofit agen- ing homes, and patients in hospital mental
cy that serves educators, parents, health health programs, including veterans. Grad-
professionals and employers. Independent uates range from kindergartners to college
research recognizes BrainWise as an ev- graduates and from women targeted by
idence-based curriculum that shows how sex traffickers in rural China to impover-
the brain changes as we learn and how ished girls in rural India.
you can build brain connections that sup-

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Crystal miller
Crystal Miller is an author, international challenges they face. Crystal also speaks
speaker, and a survivor of the Columbine in effort to prevent school violence and to
High School shooting. She has chosen to help those who, unfortunately have already
speak and share her story to give hope. been impacted by it—both domestically
The common thread woven throughout the and internationally. She has appeared on
fabric of humanity is our shared experience The Today Show, CNN, Larry King Live,
in suffering and hardship. Regardless of NBC, BBC News, Good Morning Amer-
race, religion, gender, or geographic loca- ica and many other news stations, and she
tion, no one is immune to the difficulties of has published with multiple news outlets
this life. Therefore, Crystal shares candidly including The New York Times, Time.com,
of her own journey of hardship, faith and and Huffington Post to name a few.
hope so that it may encourage others in the

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Thursday
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 Sarah Davidon, EdD
Sarah Davidon is the managing partner of organizations, school districts, policymak-
Davidon Consulting, which she set up to ers, philanthropic organizations, and public
guide organizations and schools in chil- agencies make decisions about systems,
dren’s mental health strategy. She comes policies, and strategies that support chil-
from over 20 years of experience as a dren’s mental health. She has worked with
Colorado and national leader in early organizations in Colorado and across the
childhood and school-age mental health, country to improve how children’s mental
and spent much of the last 10 years helping health is understood and addressed.

Thomas Insel, PHD

Thomas Roland Insel (born October 19, cated in complex social behaviors, such as
1951) is an American neuroscientist and parental care and attachment. He joined
psychiatrist who led the National Institute the Life Science division of Google X (now
of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until Verily Life Sciences). On May 8, 2017,
November 2015. Prior to becoming Direc- he left Verily Life Sciences and Co-found-
tor of NIMH, he was the founding Director ed with a neuroscience company named
of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience “Mindstrong,”a Bay-area startup. He was
at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He just named “California Mental Health
is best known for research on oxytocin and Czar.”
vasopressin, two peptide hormones impli-

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