Phương Liên Palafox (she/her) is a Vietnamese-Chinese multilingual speech-language scientist, author and advocate. 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 training and keynotes for educational and state organizations. 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. Attendees leave her presentations and storytelling feeling validated, refueled and re-engaged in their already impactful, meaningful work.