Lindsey worked as a Certified Child Life Specialist starting in 2009 with experience from a Level 1 Trauma Emergency Department and an outpatient setting working with children with developmental and behavioral diagnoses at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.  She completed her doctoral degree at University of Missouri-Columbia in Human Development and Family Science focusing on child life, trauma’s impact on child/family development, and psychosocial interventions effective in promoting growth and development post-trauma. Her training and certification through the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children provides her with a breadth of knowledge easily applied to children and disasters.  As a “Life is Good Playmaker” she radiates the spirit of optimism to those suffering from trauma.  Lindsey is a Co-Founder of CLDR.