Yvette D. Hyter, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Honors, Professor Emerita at Western Michigan University, has worked in speech-language and hearing since 1984. She focuses on trauma and culturally responsive practices. She has co-authored a textbook on culturally responsive methods and has published an edited textbook on language research in post-traumatic stress. Her work also focuses on pragmatics in African American children. She co-directs the Resiliency Center for Families and Children. She owns Language & Literacy Practices, LLC, which provides culturally/linguistically and trauma-responsive and globally sustainable consultations and courses for educational agencies and a trauma institute for speech-language clinicians and educators. She is a founding member of the SLHS Equity Action Collective, whose members established an open-access journal, the Journal of Critical Students of Communication and Disability, and who are transforming scholarship, practice, and policy using critical science, equity, and social justice.