Rev. Dr. Fred Liggin is a certified trauma professional, S.T.A.R. Practitioner (Strategies for Awareness & Resilience), Somatic Abolitionist, 3e Practioner, and ethnographer. He has over 400 hours of trauma training and 24 years of experience navigating organizational cultures as a business executive, community organizer, social entrepreneur, and Christian pastor (which is still his primary vocation). He is the founder of 3e Restoration Inc., a national non-profit and community development agency that equips and encourages communities to empower neighbors living through traumagenic experiences toward resilience. Fred was one of two leaders to organize the City of Williamsburg's historic Truth & Reconciliation Committee. He is also a founding member of the board of directors for Virginia Racial Healing Institute, an Advisory Board member for Sentara Williamsburg Regional Hospital, and Let Freedom Ring Foundation, a member of the leadership team for Williamsburg's local chapter of Coming to the Table, and a member of the Christian Community Development Association.

Fred received his Doctor of Ministry in Contextual Theology from Northern Seminary where his thesis focused on hospitality as trauma-responsive liberation in a racialized culture of collective trauma. Fred has also served as an adjunct professor where taught courses in philosophy, ethics, leadership, ethnography, communication, pastoral care, and Christian history. He has also served as a guest lecturer on the subjects of racialized cultural systems, poverty, and missiology at various universities, such as William & Mary and Oklahoma Christian University. Fred has authored one book (Racialized Cultural Systems, Social Displacement, and Christian Hospitality) and several national accredited curriculum offerings on trauma-responsive care and practice, leadership, and poverty alleviation, all of which were born from hands-on experience, practice, and evidence-based research.

Alison is an Alabama native and attended Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama where she received a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies and a Master of Education in Community Counseling. Alison began her counseling career in adolescent residential treatment in 2001 as she simultaneously earned her National Counseling Certificate and received her licensure in professional counseling. As a former LPC, Alison practiced counseling for seven years before the birth of her son after which she remained home. Following her time as a primary caregiver, Alison ventured into the realm of tutoring and education, beginning with two years as a reading recovery tutor and then transitioning to full- time teaching as a middle and high school humanities educator for five years. Alison places great value in combining her counseling and education experience into training others to be both trauma-aware and trauma-responsive.

Alison and Fred have been married for 24 years and together they have one son by birth, Ian, 17, and one son through guardianship, Javari, age 24.