Lisa Schelbe is an associate professor at Florida State University College of Social Work and a faculty affiliate at the Florida Institute for Child Welfare. She is the director of the Child Well-being Research Network and serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. Lisa received a Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being (2011-2013). Her primary research interest focuses broadly on child welfare, child maltreatment prevention, and child well-being. Specifically, her research examines the experiences of young people “aging out” of foster care. She is interested in research dissemination and the formation of research-policy-practice partnerships. Lisa is a qualitative methodologist with experience working on interdisciplinary teams. She authored a book, Some Type of Way: Aging Out of Foster Care, which is an ethnography of youth aging out. She also co-authored two books: The Handbook on Child Welfare Practice and Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment.