Christine Mason PhD, is an educational psychologist, assistant Clinical Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and a nationally recognized expert in the areas of educational reform, visioning, trauma and mindfulness, teacher and principal mentoring, and special education. Prior to her work as a researcher and educational change agent, she taught middle school youth in a large urban setting. She is also a yoga, mindfulness, meditation instructor and cohost of the podcast series Cultivating Resilience: A Whole Community Approach for Alleviating Trauma in Schools.

Martha Staeheli

Martha Staeheli, Ph.D., is a faculty member at the Program for Recovery and Community Health in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and the Director of the School Initiative for the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. Trained as a secondary English teacher, and with a PhD in Public Health, she has extensive experience in population health and epidemiology; qualitative and mixed methods research design, analysis, and evaluation; and community and clinical intervention implementation.