Ayuk Etongo is the founder and executive director of the Hadassah Foundation, a mental health NGO in Cameroon. She has extensive experience working as a counselor with the Finnish Refugee Council and Finnish Red Cross in Finland. Ayuk was also a school counselor at Anse Royale Secondary School and the Independent School, both on the Indian Ocean Island of Seychelles. She is highly skilled in working with people across different age groups and diverse cultural backgrounds. She also worked as a field monitor with the World Health Organization in Cameroon. 

Jenny Lin, BA, is a 4th year medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine applying into psychiatry with a special interest in reproductive psychiatry and women’s health. Jenny’s research interests include the psychosocial effects of infertility, pregnancy loss, and gynecological problems on patients. Jenny is the clinical co-director of the Gynecology Clinic at Weill Cornell Community Clinic.

Leah C. Susser, MD, is a reproductive psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine.  Her clinical work, academic work, and teaching focus on increasing access to mental health care for women across reproductive stages, including women with symptoms across the menstrual cycle, in the perinatal period, and during the perimenopausal transition.  She has created a specialized reproductive mental health clinic within the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Behavioral Health Center (WBHC) Outpatient Department.  Dr.

Deborah C. Beidel, PhD, ABPP is a Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor at the University of Central Florida. She is the Founder and Executive Director of UCF RESTORES, a clinical research center dedicated to changing how posttraumatic stress disorder is understood, diagnosed, and treated. Her research involves using innovative technologies to enhance the outcome of behavioral treatments for PTSD as well as to improve dissemination.

Amie R. Newins, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Florida and the Director of Clinical Operations for the Rosengren Trauma Clinic at UCF RESTORES. Her research interests focus on the relationship between anxiety and health risk behaviors, with an emphasis on risk and outcomes of trauma exposure. Her clinical expertise is in cognitive-behavioral therapy for trauma-related, anxiety, and depressive disorders. The Rosengren Trauma Clinic has provided treatment to survivors of several mass violence events.

Dr. Kirsty A. Clark (she/her/hers) is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist. She serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Public Policy Studies at Vanderbilt University and as a core faculty member in the Vanderbilt LGBT Policy Lab. Dr. Clark’s program of research focuses on examining mental health disparities, especially suicide, impacting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) populations and developing evidence-based interventions to disrupt the course of such disparities. Dr.

Dr. Jessica M. Schwartzman is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and a core faculty member of the Psychiatry Autism Research Team (PART) at VUMC. Dr. Schwartzman’s program of research focuses on characterizing and treating internalizing disorders in autistic individuals, a vulnerable cohort at elevated risk for depression and suicidality. Dr.

Autumn Kujawa, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research integrates multiple methods to examine vulnerabilities for depression and develop targeted interventions to reduce the burden of mood disorders on youth and families. Dr. Kujawa earned her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2015 and completed a internship and postdoctoral fellowship in the neuroscience of mental health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Tynessa Franks, PhD, earned her doctorate in psychology at the University of Virginia and has worked at VA hospitals in Atlanta, GA and Orlando, FL. Most recently, she has pursued a passion for helping people who have problematic social anxiety with the creation of Bashful & Bright where she aims to make evidence-based treatment strategies for social anxiety more widely available through weekly YouTube videos, group therapy services, and an online program. 

Dr. Rachel Rubin is a board-certified urologist and sexual medicine specialist. She is an assistant clinical professor of Urology at Georgetown University and works in a private practice in the Washington DC region. She is one of only a handful of physicians fellowship trained in male and female sexual medicine. Dr. Rubin is a clinician, researcher, and vocal educator in the field of sexual medicine. She completed her medical and undergraduate training at Tufts University, her urology training at Georgetown University, and her fellowship training under Dr. Irwin Goldstein in San Diego.