Pamela "Denise" Long, is principal consultant of Youthcentrix^® Therapy Services. Youthcentrix^® provides trauma-informed Allied & Behavioral Health (OT, PT, ST, & Counseling), strategic planning and implementation consulting, and an immersive learning lab for mastery of diversity, equity, inclusion, antiracism (DEIA) & trauma-informed practices. Denise has over 20 years of experience in healthcare, business, and education and over seven years in organizational development. She has worked in a level 1-trauma center, acute hospital care, home health care, Prek-12, as non-profit board member, business partner for leadership learning and development, and regularly featured media commentator feature in various news outlets. Her academic articles, mainstream publications, and speaking engagements focus on culture and change, free speech/viewpoint diversity/academic freedom and implementation of racial equity/antiracism. She has presented to thousands of professionals, parents and individuals about the intersection of equity, healing-centered cultures, and viewpoint diversity including educators, law enforcement, non-profits, academics, and business leaders. She earned her Bachelor of Health Science in occupational therapy from Mizzou (1997) and a Master of Educational Psychology (learning and cognition) from University of North Texas. Denise is a doctoral ABD  of organizational development with a focus on effective executive leadership of implementing racial equity, systemwide.