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Dr. Janet Taylor is a community psychiatrist in Sarasota, Florida, working with individuals who are criminal justice involved and have mental illness. She also has a private practice. The practice of community mental health is extremely rewarding to Dr. Janet, because “being on the frontline with individuals and their families battling the emotional and economic impact of Mental Illness is where I can make a difference.” She attended the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, for undergraduate and medical school. An internship in internal medicine at the Miriam Hospital-Brown University followed. Her psychiatric residency was completed at New York Medical College-Westchester Medical Center. She received a Master of Public Health in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention from Columbia University. Her medical experience is also international. While living in Vancouver, British Columbia, she practiced Community Psychiatry at Greater Vancouver Mental Health. During that time, Dr. Janet developed an interest in life coaching and became a certified professional coach through the Coaches Training Institute. She is a frequently invited speaker on the subjects of minority health, self-care, stress management, parenting, and work-life balance. She is a frequent contributor to CBS “This Morning,” and NBC “The Today Show” and ABC “Good Morning America” on issues of motherhood, parenting, and mental health. Dr. Janet is also regularly featured on CNN and MSNBC. Dr. Janet is a frequent speaker on the impact of Racial Trauma and Racism, Antiracism, and Conscious Allyship.

Jed Dearybury began his education career in 2001. During his 13-year early-childhood classroom tenure, Jed received numerous awards. He was featured in GQ Magazine as Male Leader of the Year, met President Obama as the South Carolina honoree of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and was named as a top five finalist for South Carolina Teacher of the Year because of his passion, love, and success in education. Since leaving the second-grade classroom in 2015, he has been leading professional development across the country, as well as training the next generation of educators through his work and teaching in higher education, teaching children's literature, creativity and play for early childhood, and fine arts in the elementary classroom. In August 2019, he started his own education consulting business, mrdearybury.com LLC, where he is the director of Creativity and Innovation. He published his first book, The Playful Classroom: The Power of Play for All Ages, co-written with Dr. Julie P. Jones, in June of 2020, thus adding author and illustrator to his list of educational credits. Courageous Classroom is his second book. His mission: Equip, Encourage, Empower the teaching profession using creativity, laughter, and hands-on fun!