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Born in Pittsburgh, PA., Dr. Alexander attended the California University of Pennsylvania, earning her B.S. in Education and a 7-12 Social Science certification. She earned her master’s degree in education (MS. Ed.) and a K-12 School Counseling certification from Duquesne University and returned there to earn her Ph.D. in Counseling and Supervision. Dr. Alexander’s research interests and areas of expertise focus on counseling diverse populations, trauma and trauma-centered interventions, Transgenerational Trauma, Historical Trauma, and Cultural Trauma in the Black community and other communities of color, athlete mental wellness, leadership, and team-building. Dr. Alexander has presented at national conferences, The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), as well as for state and community organizations including the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, local universities, high schools, and for community organizations like local branches of the NAACP on diversity, transferred trauma, and the importance of mental health treatment in minority communities. Dr. Alexander has also facilitated workshops for city workers, multiple public, private, and independent schools, and nonprofit organizations. She served as president of a local NAACP branch and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. She is also a contributing author of Counseling Ethics: Philosophical and Professional Foundations (2013) and Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions 2nd edition (2022), Springer Publishing Company. As a classroom teacher, Dr. Alexander garnered student-nominated awards such as Who’s Who Among American Teachers (2000 and 2002), and National Honor Roll’s Outstanding American Teachers (2005-2006). She is also a recipient of the 2021 The State of Black Learning, Black Excellence in Education Award and a 2021 New Pittsburgh Courier Women of Excellence recipient. In addition to her full-time position as a School Counselor at Penn Hills Senior High School, Dr. Alexander established her Consulting firm LegAAcy, Culturally Aware Advising, and Consulting, as a way to educate and engage people and communities of color around mental health, trauma, and equity & belonging and earned her Sports Counseling Certification in 2021. Dr. Alexander’s career spans the fields of both mental health and education, as those worlds often coalesce and overlap in myriad ways, affecting our personal and work lives and our ability to function healthily as leaders in those realms. Dr. Alexander’s dissertation, Examining the Legacy of Transgenerational Trauma and its Effects on Contemporary African American adults in Parenting and Caregiver Roles to African American Adolescents, has been viewed, downloaded, and referenced thousands of times, including in South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, and Tanzania and is often used to guide practitioners and lay persons around the sequelae of trauma.

With an extensive background in project management, leadership development, business development, and social media marketing and management, LaShawn R. Murray is well known for her role as a consultant to numerous small businesses. With 17 years of experience, she began her project management through customer service and retail management. She soon realized she had a talent for leading teams, setting deadlines and objectives to attain a larger goal.She began her professional career with Walgreens in 2008 as a manager, where she quickly moved up the ranks. During her tenure with Walgreens, she was tasked with transforming some of the worst-performing stores in Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC. Within six months at each location, she was credited with making them top-performing stores. This included leading the district in overall customer delight scores, developing and mentoring employees to become members of the leadership team, stabilizing staffing, and managing the reduction of hours worked for a $7.5M revenue store. In addition to store transformations, LaShawn became the Lead Store Project Manager over 40 store managers and assistant store managers to open the 2nd most prominent location in Walgreens, the flagship store in the Chinatown area of Washington, D.C. She also managed other projects for Walgreens, such as the Community Health Fair in conjunction with Medstar Southern Maryland Hospital. She led a group of individuals with the initiation, planning, and execution to promote health test screenings, immunizations, and HIV/AIDS awareness that generated over 800 attendees.LaShawn is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. She graduated from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, with a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication. While in college, she began working as a call center management intern with Verizon Wireless, where she worked closely with the benefits, workforce management, and training departments. While there, through close observation, research, and networking, she successfully developed and executed a project that improved the communication processes between supervisors and customer service representatives to increase productivity and meet adherence goals.LaShawn has led many successful projects for large companies/organizations through the years, including educational testing company Prometric, telecommunication company Verizon Communications, and Medstar Union Memorial Hospital Patient Transport Department. In 2019, LaShawn became the Director of Career Services for the Institute of Medical and Business Careers (IMBC), where she oversaw placement for graduates and created and maintained relationships with key stakeholders in major companies in the Pittsburgh region. During her time at IMBC, LaShawn began to realize her talent and love for project management, leadership, marketing, and business development and decided to take a leap of faith, and she began consulting for small businesses. In 2021, she established her consulting firm and is now the Founder & CEO of Elle Renee Agency, specializing in project management, social media marketing/management, and business development.While in high school, LaShawn became familiar with a quote from Michael Jordan that she stands by to this day, “some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” No matter the obstacle or challenge, she always believed she was the person to make it happen.

Kweiln Waller is a highly qualified manager with 16 years of public sector experience who leads a diverse and dedicated team of workforce development professionals providing jobseeker and training services to 5,000 Phoenix residents annually. Skilled in human-centered design, continuous improvement, implementing effective programs, building relationships, and administering grant-funded workforce development programs.

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