Sarah Carter, LMHC, RDT (she, her, hers) is a co-developer of Rescripted and is member of the Rescripted Leadership Team. After obtaining a BA in Theatre Arts from Boston College, Sarah moved to Chicago where she trained at the famed improv theatre, The Second City, and toured with an educational theatre troupe across high schools in the Chicago suburbs. Sarah later went on to receive an MA in Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Therapies from Lesley University with a specialization in Drama Therapy. In addition to being an LMHC, Sarah is a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) with the North American Drama Therapy Association. She is trained in the ARC (Attachment, Self Regulation, and Competency) Framework and SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment) and has completed PESI’s intensive training course in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). Over the past 10 years of her clinical career, Sarah has worked in inpatient, outpatient and residential psychiatric settings specializing in treatment of youth and adults with complex trauma through arts-based and trauma-informed interventions. More recently, Sarah coordinated the therapeutic group program for Boston Children's Hospital's Inpatient Psychiatry Service. Currently, Sarah works in private practice and provides group therapy on McLean Hospital’s Short Term Unit. 

Sasha Garfunkel Corrado, LICSW (she/her/hers) is a co-developer of Rescripted and is member of the Rescripted Leadership Team. Sasha received her Masters in Social Work from Simmons Graduate School of Social Work. Over the past 12 years, Sasha has become experienced in working with clients across their lifespan to help them gain skills to navigate symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, and challenges with executive functioning and social skills. She has an in-depth understanding of working with children and adults across multiple treatment modalities and levels of care including residential treatment, intensive home-based family therapy, and outpatient therapy. Sasha’s practice integrates her experience in the ARC (Attachment, Self Regulation, and Competency) Framework, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment). Sasha’s work is governed by a belief in the innate resiliency of people. Sasha currently works as an outpatient clinician at an eating disorder program and in private practice.  

Valerie Krpata, LICSW (she/her/hers) is a co-developer of Rescripted and is member of the Rescripted Leadership Team. Valerie received her master’s degree in social work from Simmons College. Throughout her clinical career, she has gained extensive experience working with the latency, adolescent and transitional age youth within congregate care settings who have experienced complex trauma. Valerie is also a trainer in the ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency) framework and believes in the healing power of a caring and attuned community. She has over 10 years of experience providing, collaborating and/or training on creative therapeutic approaches, including improv theater, motivational interviewing, sensory motor arousal regulation treatment (SMART), adolescent community reinforcement, and the therapeutic benefits of therapy dogs.

Krystal Pérez is a Puerto Rican sociologist passionate about eradicating gender based violence and understanding how traumatic experiences affect people's physical, emotional and social processes. With 15 years’ experience facilitating supporting groups of gender based violence victims she dedicated her graduate studies to find ways to improve care spaces for immigrant women in Puerto Rico and Spain, where she completed her Master's degree in Communication for Social Change and Development. In turn, she did her first Yoga TT in 2014 and went to India to deepen the practice. She is the Co-founder of “Arme: Narrativa Psico-corporal “ a program who gives psychotherapy and trauma sensitive yoga services for trauma survivors to Spanish speaking people in Latin America since 2017. She is a clinical intern for family and children therapy in “Gateway Mountain Center” In California. 

Keri Sawyer, has over a decade of experience facilitating movement and breath, embodiment, and trauma informed practices. She is a seasoned speaker and facilitator who has trained thousands of people as an experienced 500 hour yoga teacher and licensed Trainer with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment.
 
Keri provides Trauma Sensitive yoga to trauma survivors of all ages, facilitates trainings for yoga teachers and healthcare workers, and provides research-based information and trauma-informed treatment practices to the therapeutic world. She oversees the implementation of of trauma informed practices into therapeutic models in clinical and residential treatment programs across the country along with agency trainings and regular consultation for mental health clinicians, therapists, nurses, massage therapists, yoga teachers and more. Her passion is to provide an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predictable felt sense of their body along with spreading awareness of trauma-informed practices. 
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Keri is the owner of Openview yoga, Somatic Director at the Developmental Trauma Training Institute and The Trainer Liaison for the Center for Trauma and Embodiment where she supports, builds community and communicates with the training team. Keri is also the director of training for the Namapsa foundations non profit group that brings yoga into areas of Central Oregon that need it most. Keri specializes in training and facilitating Trauma Sensitive Yoga, yoga for mental health and therapeutic yoga. She also coaches new and advanced yoga teachers in deepening their personal practice and exploring teaching practices, workshops and business.

Originally from Greenville, Mississippi, Candace is a NASM - certified fitness coach, consent & harm reduction educator, and founder of the Center for Body Autonomy. Blending her background in social justice and wellness, her work specializes in creating safe, healthy, and inclusive spaces for all bodies to thrive. Her signature programs, JahRation Nation Dance Fitness and Fortify & Flex help teach individuals how to tap into the knowledge within their bodies by engaging in proactive self-care, joyful movement, and strength-based training. They were the co-host of the Decolonizing Fitness podcast, a social justice-conscious platform redefining fitness by unpacking mainstream toxic fitness culture.

Candace is also a TedX speaker & award-winning activist and performance artist. She is a graduate of the National Organization of Victim Advocates’ Academy and has organized national campaigns to examine the impact of racial and gender-based oppression, sexual violence, and mass incarceration. Her latest campaign, #ConsentConscious, advocates for more comprehensive, trauma-informed consent education to support our overall wellness and pleasure. Throughout the entirety of their work, Candace has used movement-based healing practices to support individuals and organizations with a particular focus on Black communities, Queer & Trans individuals, and people with disabilities. They are a self-proclaimed "Body-Enthusiast" and deeply committed to imagining what liberation can feel like in our bodies.

Mariah Rooney is weight lifter and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in treating the complex challenges that arise as a result of traumatic stress, attachment trauma, intergenerational trauma, and dissociation in children and adults. She is also an adjunct professor in the graduate School of Social Work at Winona State University, and a trauma-informed care consultant who supports systems change and capacity building efforts in systems of all sizes and types. As a previous Fellow at the Trauma Center at JRI she received extensive training in trauma and supported various project and research efforts.

Additionally, Mariah is a movement practitioner and coach with extensive training in trauma-sensitive and culturally-informed yoga and meditation practices through Warriors at Ease, Prison Yoga Project, Insight Prison Project, Mind Body Solutions, and Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Her writing and research has explored posttraumatic outcomes among combat veterans with histories of interpersonal violence, trauma sensitive education, as well as outcomes among traumatized youth in an outpatient setting using a sensory-based intervention. You can see her writing in Becoming a Student of Your Students: Trauma-Informed, Culturally Relevant Practices for Physical Education Teachers; Bulletproofing the Psyche and in American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, Economic Issues and Trends.

Tiffany is deeply committed to her friends, family, and partner; and swooning over topics that weave liberation with astrology, restoration, and photography.

Dr. Johnson is a researcher, writer, and teacher who enjoys building work cultures for the whole human being – in an equitable way. She works as an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Georgia Tech and she researches and teaches topics related to work(places), equity, and wellness. Largely drawing upon field research and qualitative methods, she has studied these topics in the context of autism, race, social class, and gender across a wide range of organizations (including non-profits, schools, and social enterprises). Her work has been published in major management and organizational psychology outlets. Her current research and teaching on racial equity in the coffee industry has received grants from Sustainability Next and the Ray C Anderson Center for Sustainable Business.

What is important to me is community and connection--family, friends, or an unexpected interaction with a stranger feeds my soul. I am a highly creative and visual aesthetics excite me. I love to express myself through photography, cooking, and home styling. I'm known for being an info hound, and love a good crossword! 

Christina Davis has had a lifelong love affair with learning. She’s curious. And likes to share what she learns. With this insatiable appetite for learning and a natural affinity towards teaching, combined with an interest in business, she has pursued many facets of organizational learning & development strategies and experiences. Christina integrates these diverse capabilities as a true strategic and collaborative business partner who leads initiatives that inspire leaders, teams, and associates to thrive, grow and deliver consistently high levels of performance. Additionally, her global change management background, including senior management roles in Asia, Australia and Europe, give her additional insight into best practices for global talent development and retention. Christina Davis is an authority on creatively bringing organizations and people in sync through company-wide strategic Talent Development initiatives. A senior executive with over 20 years of experience leading change & learning efforts, she has worked with corporations and nonprofit businesses, and for both individuals and small emerging brands. This includes learning + development, executive coaching, communications, & ideation facilitation. In addition, her experience includes sales, branding, marketing, PR oversight, and event planning. With her background working with organizations of every size, she understands the opportunities and inhibiting factors that may affect organizations, teams and individual's growth. Christina also brings entrepreneurial expertise having been involved in several start-ups in addition to starting the advisory consultancy, 9ine Group, in 2006 and The People Collective in 2023. Underpinning her strong track record is senior-level involvement in several start-ups, growth brands, as well as first-hand experience in large global organizations and franchises. She currently divides her time between city and country living in New York City & Connecticut with her partner. When she’s advising clients on talent development, she runs a small home styling company, continues to practice yoga after nearly 20 years, and is always ready with her camera to capture the small moments of everyday life.

I am a wife, a mum and lifelong migrant. I believe in the importance of equity of opportunity and the healing power of music. 

Riefqah Jappie is a seasoned international relations and government affairs executive with a strong background in policy, international trade, sustainable development and strategy. Her 20 years of experience spans Africa, Europe, United States, Asia and Australia, including 14 years at the United Nations. Riefqah is currently based in New York City and provides independent strategic consulting to international organizations and academia. Prior to establishing her independent advisory firm, Riefqah headed the New York Office of the International Trade Centre, the joint organization of the United Nations and the World Trade Organizations, for six years. She also worked on strategy and performance management at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition to her work in international affairs, Riefqah also has extensive experience in economic development, mainly gained in her native country, South Africa. Riefqah holds degrees in Economics and Arts from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and an Executive Master of Public Administration from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. Besides her native English and Afrikaans, Ms. Jappie also speaks French and Spanish. She is married and has one daughter.

Dr. Williams is a #plantmom and enjoys tending a container garden when the weather is more friendly! She loves soaking up the sun in the summer, which brings her joy and energy, and she always finds time to sip on a warm, comforting masala chai in the winter. 

Dr. Kerry-Ann Williams is a psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer at Justice Resource Institute. She enjoys teaching the next generation of psychiatrists at the Harvard/Cambridge Health Alliance Psychiatry Residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship programs, where she is a Part-Time Lecturer. Her most recent project has been hosting a podcast called Black Mental Health Matters with Dr. Kerry-Ann, where she highlights mental health providers and topics relevant to the Black community and beyond. Dr. Williams believes that wellness is multifactorial - including biological, psychological, spiritual, social, and cultural aspects that are intricately interconnected. She observes that healing is frequently an exploration of these parts, both individually and together with others. Throughout her time practicing as a psychiatrist, she has developed a specialization in working with individuals that have experienced complex psychiatric presentations because of traumatic experiences, and she has also observed the amazing ways that individuals survive and thrive. 

Am a mother of 3 grown up children (33, 28, 26), I live in NYC with my youngest daughter and our dog Nugget, We adopted Nugget 7 years ago and are regularly fostering shelter dogs, animal welfare is very important to us. Am vegetarian out of environmental concerns and use to say that running is my therapy...have run marathons in the US and Europe as well as a few triathlons.

Manuela Montagnana is Criteo’s Chief People Officer leading the people team at Criteo, ensuring equitable, transparent and inclusive systems and practices to support an engaged and high-performing global workforce. She lives and works in New York City and Paris. Tri lingual and bi cultural she brings more than 20 years of experience as a people executive, leading global teams in the manufacturing, service, and technology industries. Manuela has a proven track record of accelerating performance through human capital management in a transformation context in both highly matrixed organizations and those undergoing hyper growth. Prior to Criteo she served as Vice President, Head of Human Resources for Product and Engineering at Compass in NYC, where she built and led the Human Resources team in the US and India. During her tenure as VP HR at ADP, Manuela relocated from Paris to New York City. She started her career at Steelcase, the office manufacturer, at their international headquarters in France where she developed her intercultural management skills. Manuela grew up in Germany and attended the University of Paris X and Strasbourg studying Law, later completing her Masters in Business Administration at IAE - Écoles Universitaires de Management in Strasbourg, France.

Ingrid Lindberg is a serial Customer Experience Officer (CXO). As the first CXO in the country, she has been on the leading edge of customer experience and engagement for over 20 years. Her experiences have spanned the Fortune 500 across Finance, Healthcare, Packaged Goods, Telco and Retail. She’s the CXO at Chief Customer and helps companies turn customer experience theory into practice – working with companies to create differentiating customer experience strategies and the cultures to support them.

As President of Kobie Marketing, she was accountable for providing strategic leadership for the firm and operational oversight. She drove the creation of the company’s first corporate strategy and supporting operational management framework. She also led the creation of product and technology roadmaps and crafted the firm’s consumer strategy. Lindberg drove a 30 percent increase in employee engagement and a 200+ percent increase in client satisfaction.

As CXO at Prime Therapeutics, Lindberg was responsible for developing and leading the implementation of their enterprise customer experience strategy. Her role within Prime was the first of its kind within the pharmacy benefit management industry. Her work led to Prime to a 21 percent increase in helpfulness of information and a 24 percent reduction in the net effort. At the end of her tenure at Prime, members were reporting a 95 percent Satisfaction and Loyalty score – for the 6th consecutive quarter – 20 points higher than anyone else in the industry. Prime was able to correlate that the higher satisfaction led to better adherence. Consumers who were highly satisfied were 2.8 more likely to be adherent.

Prior to joining Prime, Lindberg was the CXO at Cigna and was accountable for transforming the company into a consumer centric brand. Her efforts led to a 156 percent improvement in customer understanding of benefits, a 50 percent reduction in the number of printed materials customers received, and the use of simpler language that didn’t rely on health care jargon (The Words We Use™). The Words We Use™ is the benchmark for health plan communications in America and is being actively used by all major national payers.

Before her time at Kobie and Prime, Lindberg held roles with American Express, Pillsbury, Definity Health, UHC and Ceridian, always working to design and enhance experiences for employees and customers.
Lindberg was named 2014 Maverick of the Year by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business for having a significant impact on her industry. She also was awarded a 2014 Gold Stevie for the best new consumer product or service of the year for primehelps.com – a tool that simplified health plan selection for consumers to 3 clicks.

In 2013 she was named one of the Global 40 Under 40 in Marketing for her customer experience leadership and impact on the healthcare industry. In 2009, Business Insurance named Ingrid a Woman to Watch. She was awarded a Stevie award for customer communications in 2011 as well as a Gold CRM Award for implementation of her Customer Experience Strategy by Gartner. Her work has been highlighted in an IBM Global Business Services case study called "Don’t yield on customer trust: Navigating the customer experience journey on the rough road ahead."

Lindberg is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and is heavily quoted by top publications including the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business and Bloomberg.

I enjoy my work and helping my clients, but most of all I enjoy spending time with my family and playing golf.

Maria C. Levin, CPA, Principal, Maria C. Levin, PC. Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Bentley College, 30 plus yrs experience in Public Accounting, approx 25 years self- employed. I am a Director of a small community Bank called Coastal Heritage Bank . I have been fortunate enough to have been a board member for about 20 years. I am a member of the Women’s Business Network here in Norwood, where we work together to help the local community.