Dr. Lisa Collins, a seasoned teacher with over 30 years of experience in public schools and colleges, is also a business consultant. In these roles, she provides wellness and trauma-healing workshops to organizations, focusing on promoting well-being and healing from adverse life experiences. Practical experience in self-healing informs her work and positively impacts the organizations and schools she serves. She grew up in a military family and lived on military bases in Japan and the Philippines, enriching her experiences with diverse cultures, which
made her adaptable with the ability to connect with people from varied backgrounds. In her research and consulting, Dr. Collins brings a gender-equity and healing lens to create community and well-being for individuals in her workshops. In addition to a doctorate in Education, Dr. Collins completed a post-doc in racial healing based on the conscious freedom framework, specializing in addressing racial trauma. She showcased her groundbreaking research on racial healing in a TEDx Talk, where she vulnerably shared her healing journey with a broad audience. Her book, LOVE OF LIGHT: A GUIDE TO
PEACE AND ONENESS, offers profound insights into Consciousness, self-awareness, and practical tools for fostering peace in daily life. She shares uplifting stories and transformative healing practices worldwide in the Love and Light podcast, inspiring listeners to explore healing in various contexts. As a playwright, she has created the film BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR, a powerful catalyst for meaningful dialogues on racial healing and social change. Dr. Collins presents her healing framework for racial trauma in the article, HEALING RACIAL TRAUMA FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS, Journal of Research Initiatives, Vol. 8: sIs.
1, Article 3, digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol8/iss1/3. Dr. Collins shares her profound insights on healing racial trauma in our enlightening conversation on this show, offering valuable perspectives on addressing racial trauma.

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I grew up in a rural community in South Carolina. My father was a general laborer, and he, along with my mother and their eight children, were sharecroppers. I am their sixth child, and I spent my formative years picking cotton and plowing with a mule. I gained a burst of insight when I was 15 years old from an internal consciousness that told him I could do better with his life. I heeded the inspiration and enrolled in college, graduating with honors. I earned a Master of Arts from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from Miami University (Ohio). I received a Golieb post-doctoral fellowship from the New York University School of Law, where I enrolled in the first-year curriculum and the Legal History Seminar. I began teaching at Wilberforce University in Ohio. I also taught at the University of Cincinnati and was a long-time constitutional history professor at North Carolina State University. I was the inaugural director of the African American Studies Program at Mississippi State University. I have lectured and presented scholarly papers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. I presented at the American Society of Legal History, the British Legal History Association, the Southern Historical Association, and the Association of African American Life and History. I have lectured at the University of Washington, Cambridge University, and Keele University in the United Kingdom. My scholarly endeavors have taken me to three African countries, including Ghana, where the University of Ghana boasts an African Studies program.

As a speaker and workshop facilitator, I presented “Four Elements of Progressive Constitutionalism” in the Amicus Curiae Lecture series at Marshall University (2012); “Abraham Lincoln and Executive War Powers,” Wilmington College (2013); “Reconstruction and the Politics of Expedience,” Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, MS (2015); and facilitated teachers at summer seminars for the National Endowment for the Humanities at Georgia State University in 2016 and 2018.

Now retired from academic work, I am the founder of The Possibility-Action Network and host of The Possibility-Action Network Podcast. I am a speaker, transformational coach, and social entrepreneur.