Victoria Romero is an educator with over 42 years of experience working as a classroom teacher, principal, instructional and leadership coach. A principal in two turnaround schools, she continues to coach administrators, directors, principals, vice principals, and school leadership teams for equity and sustainable school improvement in three school districts in Washington state.

Victoria is a certified consultant for Corwin/Sage Publishers and lead author for two Corwin Press books, Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole Staff Approach (2018) and Race Resilience: Achieving Equity Through Self and Systems Transformation (2021). Both these books delve the impact of traumatization as it relates to social-emotional needs of White and students of color and how to create school cultures that foster resilience. In the latter work, she outlines a guide to support school staff in engaging in authentic dialogue about how our racialization and racial positioning influences our perceptions, behaviors, expectations, and decisions. Her guiding conceptual framework is systems will change when the people working in them change.

Ricky Robertson has had the privilege to work with students from PreK to 12th grade who have persevered in the face of adversity and trauma. As a consultant and coach, he assists schools in developing trauma-informed systems of support and restorative practices that foster resilience and success for staff and students. His relationship-based approach to teaching resulted in his student passing rates on state math assessments improving from 55% to over 90%. He was featured on PBS's American Graduate in 2013 because of this work. Ricky currently holds a teaching credential (K-12 Special Education) and Washington State school administrator certification. As a teacher, behavior specialist, and coach, he has worked in K-12 traditional and alternative schools. He holds a master’s degree in education from City College of New York and a master’s degree in educational leadership from Western Governors University. Ricky is the co-author of Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole-Staff Approach.

Amber N. Warner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with over 20 years of experience. She has had the privilege of serving as a community outreach case manager (4 years), school social worker (8 years), medical social worker (5 years) , and behavioral health therapist (3 years). As a School Social Worker, in addition to her work with children and their families, she was part of the school wide Modern Red School House Leadership Team and the Positive Behavior Interventions and Systems Team. She facilitated K-6 monthly classroom discussions utilizing Second Step and Character Counts curriculums. Amber is also a co-author of Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole Staff Approach.

In 2011 Amber worked in healthcare and part of the organization’s leadership team, she was introduced to the work of Dr. Bryan Sexton on healthcare providers’ staggering burnout rates and the healing proponents of Positive Psychology. A new passion and interest developed for her. She became a Certified Duke Patient Safety Officer in 2013 at Duke University’s Patient Safety Center.
Amber has also studied under the direction of Dr. David Burns, leading Psychiatrist, and adjunct professor at Stanford University and the developer of TEAM a new form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the treatment of depression and anxiety. She has achieved Level 2 TEAM certification from the Feeling Good Institute.
She has a certification from the National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth in Trauma-Informed Care.

Most of all, Amber has a passion for people, their wellness, and quality of life. She currently resides in California. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, hiking, Inferno Pilates, learning new things, traveling, community service, attending church, and an occasional new pair of shoes.