E. Susana Mariscal, Ph.D., MSW is a professor at Indiana University School of Social Work. She is a transformational leader, federally-funded community-engaged scholar, with an active research agenda centered on strengths-based child maltreatment prevention and resilience promotion. She led Strengthening Indiana Families, a primary child maltreatment prevention project funded by the U.S. Children’s Bureau that implemented, sustained and scaled family resource centers. Her current studies include a national survey of Latina victimization, an intervention study of A Window Between Worlds, an arts-based trauma informed program, and cross-system partnerships to support young families facing parental cancer. She is an affiliated research scientist with the Life Paths Research Center, a ResilienceCon Senior Advisor, and a Resilience Portfolio Consortium member. She serves on the National Family Support Network, the National Family Resource Center Coalition, and on Esperanza United’s Research Advisory Council and research leadership mentoring program.