Dr. Pamela J Pine has been an international health, development, and communication professional throughout her adult life who has worked worldwide focusing on enhancing the lives of the poor and otherwise underserved and on issues as broad and diverse as leprosy, tropical diseases, HIV, TB, maternal and child health, childhood vaccination, reproductive health/family planning, and economic development. For the past 20 years, her primary focus has been on the prevention, treatment, and mitigation of child sexual abuse (CSA) and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). She was the Founder (2002) and former CEO of Stop the Silence®: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc. and, when Stop the Silence® became a Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT) in January 2021, she became its’ Director. She is the architect of a child trauma mitigation model and, also, a unique online Certificate to Master’s Degree Program in Child Protection (2023). She is also a public health professor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Additionally, she has been a multi-media artist throughout her life, which she uses in her work to raise awareness and open hearts and minds toward action, and a best-selling author. She is the Lead Author of Stop the Silence® - Thriving After Child Sexual Abuse, a collaborative book written by 23 international “thriver” authors who tell their story and provide helpful guidance for healing, published by Brave Healer Productions (March 2023), and an author in four other books (so far, with two others being published in 2024). Her degrees are from the University of Maryland (PhD), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (MPH), Ohio University (MAIA-International Affairs), and Cornell University (BFA). For more, see https://www.ivatcenters.org/stop-the-silence and https://www.drpamelajpine.com.