Podcast Panelists

Dayna Durr has been a principal of a large secondary school that provides emotional development as well as behavioral interventions for students as well as an elementary school principal. She holds several degrees in Special Education and is an expert in the area of trauma, youth and families, having survived her own family’s worst night, coming out the other side to still stand with others who are struggling. 

Patricia Barker is on the executive committee of the National School Nurses Association of the United States, she has been given awards as a nurse of excellent and won the Johnson and Johnson fellow award, she is the Director of the Alaska State School Nurses Association and has been a respected and honored nurse for almost thirty years. Her tremendous connection with youth and families has allowed her the opportunity to see through a lens many of us are unaware of. 

Bonnie Gross: Former: New York City Department of Education, Executive Director, Office of Student Enrollment; Director of Students Living in Temporary Housing; Chairperson of Chancellors’ Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect/Prevention and Intervention. CUNY Brooklyn College Adjunct Instructor in School of Education