Expert advisors provide strategic input, expertise, and policy advice.

Committee members help advance evidence-informed and promising practices to address trauma, toxic stress, and inequities and break down silos by engaging with similarly committed leaders across sectors.

The Committee is composed of diverse thought leaders, practitioners, researchers, and individuals with lived experience. The following sectors are represented on the Advisory Committee: early childhood, education, health care, justice, and social services.

Lauren Baker

CEO, Wonderfund

Alonna Berry

Senior Director at Social Contract

Rebecca H. Bryan, DNP, APN

Executive Director, New Jersey Office of Resilience

Cherene Caraco

Founder, CEO, Promise Resource Network

Roy Wade, Jr., MD, PhD, MPH, MSHP

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Ingrid L. Cockhren, MEd

Former CEO of PACEs Connection and CEO of Cockhren Consulting

Laurie Crawford, MPA

Director, Office of Trauma and Resilience Policy at the Virginia Department of Social Services

Rachel Gilgoff, MD

Clinical & Science Senior Advisor, Aurrera Health Group

Joan Gillece, PhD

Director, Center for Innovation in Health Policy and Practice, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors

Becky Haas

International Advocate and Trainer in Trauma-Informed Care

Craig Hargrow

Deputy Executive Director, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth

Jesse Kohler

Executive Director, Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy & Practice

Teri Lawler, EdD, LPCMH

Founding Member, Trainer & Curriculum Architect, Delaware Compassionate Schools Learning Collaborative

Melissa Merrick, PhD

President & CEO, Prevent Child Abuse America

Dipesh Navsaria, MD

Associate Professor, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Wisconsin Department of Pediatrics

Mikah Owen, MPH, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Davis Health Children's Hospital

Bruce Perry, MD, PhD

Principal, Neurosequential Network; Senior Fellow, The Child Trauma Academy

Ricky Robertson, MA, MEd

Educator, Author & Consultant, Teach for Trust

Audrey Smolkin, MPP

Executive Director, Center on Child Wellbeing & Trauma, Office of the Child Advocate

Jennifer Tracey

Senior Director of Growth and Sustainability, Healthy Steps, ZERO TO THREE