Keynote Speaker

  Genevieve has been a Certified Child Life Specialist since 1990, working both in clinical settings and private practice. She is currently faculty at Bank Street College of Education in the Child Life Program and teaches the course; The Role of the Child Life Specialist Beyond the Hospital: A local, national and global view. Her interest in child life practice in the community led to the facilitation of a parenting discussion group at a local jail. Additionally, she provides consulting to a wide array of organizations, schools, and nonprofits, providing workshops, educational training, and online materials. She is trained as a Reiki Teacher and in guided imagery and is a certified educator of infant massage, family trauma, and an end-of-life doula. She is the founder of the Convenient Classroom providing online learning opportunities for child life specialists, co-host of the podcast Coping Kits for Everyday Life and provides clinical supervision to child life specialists working in community settings. She received her undergraduate degree from Wheelock College and her Master's from Fordham University.

 Lindsey Murphy, PhD, CCLS is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Child Life Studies Program Director at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO, USA. She got her doctoral degree from University of Missouri, where she studied the experiences of first responders working with children during emergency events. She co-founded the nonprofit organization, Child Life Disaster Relief(CLDR), in 2016. She served on the CLDR Board of Directors from 2016-2020, and led a team of Certified Child Life Specialists nationwide that worked to integrate child life specialists into their communities during crises. She has been a Certified Child Life Specialist since 2009, she began her career in the level 1 Pediatric Trauma and Emergency Department and continued her clinical work later in the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She is on the Founding Council for the Child Life Academic Society and currently serves as co-chair on the Association of Child Life Professionals Community-Based Practice Committee.