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Imagining Our Schools Complexly | Emily Luft | TEDxDelmarLoopED

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Emily Luft earned a bachelor’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Missouri- Columbia and a Masters of Social Work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining Alive and Well STL, Luft was a program fellow with the Missouri Foundation for Health. In this role, she supported funding across four programs and helped to lead collaborative funding program design.

Luft also served as the project manager for the Missouri Innovation Fund, a project of the National Convergence Partnership, which linked six communities across the state of Missouri in their efforts to promote healthy eating and active living.

In her role as program director of Alive and Well STL, Luft oversees the coordination of all of the Alive and Well activities and programs. She has trained thousands of service providers about the impacts of trauma and has helped numerous organizations begin making culture and policy changes to better respond to the impacts of trauma. She also acts as the lead on Alive and Well’s work to support trauma-informed education, training and coaching schools and working with educational leaders to create regional guidance for trauma-informed schools. Emily Luft earned a bachelor’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Missouri- Columbia and a Masters of Social Work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining Alive and Well STL, Luft was a program fellow with the Missouri Foundation for Health. In this role, she supported funding across four programs and helped to lead collaborative funding program design.

Luft also served as the project manager for the Missouri Innovation Fund, a project of the National Convergence Partnership, which linked six communities across the state of Missouri in their efforts to promote healthy eating and active living.

In her role as program director of Alive and Well STL, Luft oversees the coordination of all of the Alive and Well activities and programs. She has trained thousands of service providers about the impacts of trauma and has helped numerous organizations begin making culture and policy changes to better respond to the impacts of trauma. She also acts as the lead on Alive and Well’s work to support trauma-informed education, training and coaching schools and working with educational leaders to create regional guidance for trauma-informed schools. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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