Dr. Lau Johnson is a Licensed Psychologist and Nationally Certified School Psychologist whose focus is on developing culturally responsive treatment programs and strategies to serve marginalized youth. She is the developer of the Racial Trauma Module for CBITS, as well co-developed TRANSFORM (Trauma and Racism Addressed by Navigating Systemic Forms of Oppression using Resistance Methods). She is currently the Program Director for Service Systems at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS), which serves as the coordinating center for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). 

Dr. Lau Johnson is a woman of color with a severe bilateral hearing impairment and is an anti-racism and disability justice advocate. She is passionate about uplifting and empowering those with lived expertise across all spaces and often engages in storytelling to discuss complex issues. As a mother of three, multiracial children and a daughter of immigrants she strongly believes in the practice of cultural humility and engaging in critical self-reflection to inform her worldview. Her professional and lived expertise fuels her dynamic speaking style that inspires others to push the work forward.