Jody McVittie, MD is a native Seattleite and is the co-founder and director of strategic partnerships for Sound Discipline, a local non-profit that works with local schools, educators, youth outreach programs and parenting educators to teach the tools we can all use to foster dignity and equity in our communities. She her medical degree from Case Western University and completed a family medicine residency and fellowship in Modesto California before returning to the Northwest and shifting her focus to broader community issues that impact health outcomes including parenting, education, trauma and the impact of intra-family violence. She is a lead trainer for the Positive Discipline Association and co-authored Positive Discipline in the School and Classroom. She has consulted for dozens of schools: public, independent, early childhood, elementary, and secondary. Her work with schools includes trainings in Spanish for First Nations Communities and for a school for the deaf.