Cassandra Kisiel, Ph.D. is a an Associate Professor and clinical psychologist in the Mental Health Services and Policy Program and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.  She is the Principal Investigator and Project Director for the Center for Child Trauma Assessment, Services and Interventions, a center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) that specializes in supporting child-serving systems in developing the infrastructure to understand, assess, and respond to the developmental effects of childhood trauma.  Dr. Kisiel has over 20 years of experience specializing in the complex, developmental effects of trauma, including a focus on resilience, strengths and protective factors; child trauma assessment and evaluation. She has published and lectured extensively in the area of child trauma assessment and the impact of complex trauma within child-serving settings. Dr. Kisiel is recognized for her expertise in the area of child trauma assessment within the NCTSN.  She also has extensive experience in supporting the implementation of trauma-informed practices, including a range of intervention approaches and assessment strategies with practitioners across the country.  Dr. Kisiel is the primary developer of the CANS-Trauma versions, including the most recent CANS -Trauma Comprehensive, developed in collaboration with the NCTSN with applications in numerous child-serving systems across the U.S. and in several other countries.

Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD is the Director of Research at the Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH), Director of the Data and Evaluation Program at the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. She is a clinical/community psychologist with a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. As part of her current work, she is involved in the implementation, dissemination, and evaluation of evidence-based practices aimed at reducing the sequelae associated with maltreatment and child traumatic stress. Dr. Briggs-King is also a co-investigator on several multisite, longitudinal studies examining the developmental and psychosocial impact of trauma and violence. She also has expertise in the area of cultural, gender, and systemic issues. Prior to coming to Duke, she was a research fellow at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center and the Medical University of South Carolina, where she studied the impact of family violence, child maltreatment, and other traumatic events on youth. Dr. Briggs-King has received several academic and community based awards for her work in developing programs to prevent and reduce the risk of maltreatment, trauma, and HIV/AIDS among African-American youth and their families. Her clinical and research interests over the past 19 years have been in the area of minority mental health, resiliency, reducing disparities, chronic adversity, and traumatic stress.

Lisa Conradi, Psy.D. is the Director of Clinical Operations at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children’s Hospital - San Diego.  In this role, she oversees all clinical programs at the Chadwick Center, a Child Advocacy Center and one of the largest trauma treatment centers in the nation.  She has multiple years of experience in the field of child trauma and in supporting service systems in their efforts to become more trauma-informed.  She has authored and co-authored a variety of publications on trauma screening and assessment practices, creating trauma-informed systems and presented nationally on innovative practices designed to improve the service delivery system for children who have experienced trauma.  She is one of the developers of the second edition of the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit and served as the Project Director for the Chadwick Trauma-Informed Systems Dissemination and Implementation Project.  She oversaw the development of multiple resources and materials designed to help systems become trauma-informed.  She served as the Program Manager for the Breakthrough Series Collaborative on “Using Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice to Improve Placement Stability” under sub-contract with the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at UCLA.  She is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and has received training from the developers on multiple evidence-based trauma-focused treatment practices, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP).  Dr. Conradi received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis and her graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, California.  She is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma and served as an editor for the book, Female Offenders of Intimate Partner Violence.