TLC Spotlights interview one or more faculty and staff members to focus on a particular teaching and learning issue. This spotlight interview with Dr. Gina Rae Foster, Director of John Jay College’s Teaching and Learning Center, focuses on how understanding trauma and resilience can make us better teachers. Dr. Foster discusses how trauma affects our capacities to learn and how we can work with our students to make our classrooms places of stability and community that allow for resilient learning.