Amittia Parker, PhD, LMSW, MPA,  is a social worker, researcher, national trainer, and mama scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, Thrive Center. Her community-engaged research, training, scholarship, and service focus on advancing minority mental health and equity, particularly among families that are pregnant and parenting young children. Amittia has worked for 15 years as a mental health consultant across a variety of settings, including home-based services, childcare centers, school-based services, and health clinics. She serves in leadership and supportive roles in local, state, and national venues focused on infant and early childhood, Black communities, and Black social workers. She was awarded for Advancing Minority Mental Health and for the Alice Eberhart Wright Visionary Award, Recognizing Excellence in the Field of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health. Amittia is passionate about facilitating transformative and healing spaces that center wellness, critical reflection, meaningful dialogue, and change.