Dr. Ivy is an architect in the education space innovating access for all students. She possesses an Ed.D. in Educational Psychology from Regent University with a research focus in childhood trauma’s impact on learning and development coupled with a specialty certification in Neuro-sequential Modeling in Education (NME) from The Child Trauma Academy (CTA). Dr. Ivy’s Grounded Learning Framework provides a blueprint for redefining education so that we can move past the mythical pursuit of equity and justice and truly have the hope of realizing it. She is the founder of Every Child Whole, LLC, an educational services organization, and its affiliated non-profit ReThink Learning, Inc. She has just released her book, Grounded Learning: Education’s Recovery Plan and is the author of her own story, LOST: Finding My Way Back to a Place I’ve Never Been and the educator course, The Day Trauma Came to Class.