Cissy White works to support individuals and initiatives making trauma-informed change with survivors of trauma who are Parenting with ACEs. Cissy joined ACEs Connection first as a free-lance writer and has worked as a Community Facilitator for the Northeast Region and as the Parenting with ACEs Community Manager. In 2014, Cissy opened up about being a trauma survivor on her Heal Write Now blog, hoping to help create the survivor-led community she’d searched her whole life to find. Cissy’s essays, stories, and profiles have run in The Boston Globe, Spirituality and Health, Ms. Magazine, To Write Love on Her Arms, ACEs Too High, the Attachment Trauma Network, The Patient Advocacy Network, and Elephant Journal. Her survivor-led advocacy has been written about in the Atlantic Monthly and The Mighty. Cissy has led Parenting with PTSD and Healing from Trauma workshops for survivors and therapists. She recently appeared on a PBS NewsHour series on traumatic stress and healing and has appeared on several podcasts such as the Trauma Therapist Podcast, Healing Our Ghosts, and Law and Order. She speaks internationally about parenting with PTSD, ACEs, and community-level change. She believes all trauma-informed change must be informed by and led by survivors. She is also part of the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance Survivors Teaching Students program. She speaks with lived expertise about the way developmental trauma can impact children and adults.