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About the Presenter

Allegra Saunders IWBMC-CE Chief Clinical Operations Officer | The Jacob's Ladder Group Allegra Saunders has spent over a decade with The Jacob's Ladder Group, joining as a volunteer in 2010 and as a full-time staff member since 2011. A magna cum laude graduate of Florida State University, she is a Certified Evaluator in the Interpersonal Whole-Brain Model of Care® (IWBMC-CE) and a Certified Adaptive Personal Trainer, with additional training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, the Advanced TheraSuit Method, Integrated Listening Systems, and Quantum Reflex Integration. She has co-authored multiple publications on the IWBMC™ methodology, including a peer-reviewed case study in the Technium Social Sciences Journal examining the model's impact on cognition and academic performance in an autistic adolescent, and the Pillar Research Institute white paper Understanding the IWBMC™: The Union of Science & Love. As Chief Clinical Operations Officer, Allegra oversees clinical integrity across Jacob's Ladder's evaluation team, conducts initial evaluations, and helps drive development of the AHAVA software platform and Ascend Training Institute's curriculum. She has trained Jacob's Ladder staff, helped build the organization's accredited online training courses, and delivered trainings and presentations to audiences including Forsyth County Schools, Carroll County Schools, Premier High Schools (TX), and the Ethiopian church community. Allegra has also presented at SXSW EDU (2026) and the Knowledge to Action Conversation hosted by the Child Welfare Training Collaborative in partnership with Georgia State University.