Publications & Media

It's an honor to be featured! Check out the resources below, highlighting various publications and media features. If you would like to connect for co-authorship, webinar hosting, or to chat on a podcast---connect on the Contact page.

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The Trauma-Informed Educator: Mindsets and Practices for Resilience, Connection and Change

The Trauma-Informed Educator equips K–12 educators, school leaders, and support staff with the mindsets and tools needed to navigate today’s complex educational landscape. Built around Brianna Young’s 10 C’s Framework, this professional resource reframes trauma-informed education as a way of seeing and responding—so educators can create real change and overcome burnout.

Grounded in neuroscience, behavioral science, and equity-centered practice, this book includes educator stories, reflection prompts, and mindset shifts that support individual teachers and their students, as well as schoolwide systems. It addresses primary and secondary trauma and the need for coherence across policies, relationships, and routines.

The Trauma-Informed Educator:

Introduces a clear, actionable framework for trauma-informed practice
Addresses the individual and collective trauma educators and students face
Provides tools for immediate use and long-term system change
Aligns with SEL standards, trauma-informed system principles, and MTSS implementation

Designed for flexible use in professional learning communities, district PD, or individual reflection, this book helps educators build calmer classrooms, stronger relationships, and more sustainable approaches to student and adult well-being.

Order now on your favorite bookselling platform! Publish date: December 1, 2026

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Writing + Publications

Daily Decompress Journal

A daily reflection tool to empower educators to reset and decompress at the end of each day.

Organizational Plasticity

Written with Shawana Booker at Trauma Transformed, this piece offers insight on how trauma-informed systems move.

Reaching for Resilience

Sample presentation on trauma-informed mindsets as part of Reach University's Teacher's Lounge speaker series

Trauma-Informed Recovery

This is a recorded training in partnership with the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Project

Oak Trees in a Storm

This generative conflict toolkit is composed of three distinct resources to support critical reflection for facilitators and teams to make meaning of their current culture and the shifts they might want to make to better navigate conflict. These resources were developed by The Radicle Roots Collective and the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Project, synthesized by me.

Trauma-Informed School Systems Training

The resource is an all-in-one facilitator guide, slide deck, and video example of the training in action that can be used to support your school teams. Our vision is that you make meaning of this content for yourself, reviewing the video example and facilitator notes to lead this training for your school teams developed for the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Project.

Honoring Grief

This piece highlights the experiences educators face with greif, and offers invitations to reflect and honor that grief in helpful ways.

Leading with Courage

This piece is a synthesis of 5+ years of conversations with school leaders navigating deaths by suicide.

Keynotes + Presentations

2025

Keynote | East Bay Agency for Children Fundraising Gala
Keynote | California Afterschool Network Strategic Planning Convening

2024

Breakout | Aurora Institute Conference | Trauma Informed Classrooms session
Breakout | California Alliance for Children and Families Conference | Suicide Postvention Community of Practice - Summarizing our Work

2023

Breakout | Center for Care Innovations Webinar Series (Virtual) | Presentation: Trauma-Informed Care Practices in Healthcare
Keynote | Pediatric Pulmonology Summit at University of California, San Francisco |Trauma-Informed Care Approaches in Pediatrics: An Introduction
Featured Speaker | Reach University's Teachers' Lounge Series | Trauma-Informed Classroom Habits

2022 and earlier

San Francisco City Impact Annual Gala

Keynote Speaker: Importance of Educator Development in Urban Schools

All In Education Conference (Dubuque, IA)

Handling Difficult Conversations in the Classroom

Aurora Institute — Presentation (Palm Springs, CA)

Youth Lobbyists: How to Engage Teens in the Legislative Process

CRCSD Magnet Conference (Cedar Rapids, IA)

Session 1: Easy Mindfulness Strategies for the Classroom
Session 2: Trauma-Informed Classroom Tips
Session 3: Embedding Standards Within PBL

All In Education Conference (Dubuque, IA)

Trauma-Informed Classroom Responses

Education Reimagined

Panelist and Discussion Facilitator: Paradigm Shift in Education

White Privilege Symposium

Co-Presenter: What Are We Teaching White Kids About Race?

Aurora Institute — Presentation (Orlando, FL)

OERs in the Classroom: How One Iowa School District Implemented Open Educational Resources from a Systemic Lens

Midwest Culturally Inclusive Conference

Co-Presenter: Implicit Bias and its Impacts – An Interactive Session to Examine Bias in Interpersonal Relationships

Association of Middle-Level Educators Conference

Panelist and Co-Presenter: How an Experiential Placement Prior to Student Teaching Improves Educator Outcomes

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