Brandon Jones is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health. He is also a consultant with expertise in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Historical and Intergenerational trauma, Social/Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Leadership, and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). He brings the perspective of his own lived experience of surviving childhood in a home of domestic violence and other forms of trauma. Brandon holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, a Masters in Community Psychology from Metropolitan State University, and a Masters in Psychotherapy (MFT) from Adler Graduate School. Brandon is also a 2013 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow. He lives by the motto “Live life with Purpose, on Purpose.”