Regent’s professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

From 2008 to 2013, she was a George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Community Medicine at OU-Tulsa, where she led the Tulsa Children’s Project, a highly integrated set of interventions to reduce the effects of intergenerational poverty and adversity. With Dr. Amanda Morris, she is the co-author of Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: A Developmental Perspective, published in 2019 by APA Press, and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Adversity and Resilience Science (Springer), with the first volume published in March, 2020.  She also co-authored Raising a Resilient Child in a World of Adversity: Effective Parenting for Every Family which was released in November 2023.