Phương Liên Palafox (she/her) is a Vietnamese-Chinese multilingual speech-language therapist, author and communication activist. She has been within and alongside school districts for the last two decades. Currently, her time is spent empowering clients and their families in her clinic, and she provides keynotes and trainings for school districts and organizations internationally. With a foundation of evidence-based, human-centered practices, she invests in Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Practices, Narrative-Based Interventions and Advocacy for Educators and Service Providers. She is the author of The Heartbeat of Speech-Language Pathology and Buoy, a children’s book about her family’s refugee journey. Attendees leave her presentations and storytelling feeling validated, refueled and re-engaged in their already-impactful, meaningful work.