Dr. Lee Ann Jung’s career started in 1994 in Alabama as a special educator—working in a system that, like many at the time, relied on separate schools and centers to serve young children with disabilities. When federal scrutiny forced the state to dismantle those models and redesign early intervention in inclusive settings, Lee Ann found herself at 24 years old as the center's administrator. The center was charged with rebuilding service delivery from the ground up—reworking policies, practices, staffing, funding structures, and professional roles. The transition succeeded, and the state asked Lee Ann to support other schools and centers navigating similar change. That experience shaped everything that followed. While completing her doctorate, Lee Ann continued consulting in Alabama and later in Kentucky, where she joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky. She began consulting nationally with schools on inclusive practices and service delivery models. In 2008, Lee Ann was invited to speak at the Tri-Association Conference for American international schools in Latin America. International school leaders—often navigating inclusion for the first time within historically selective systems—began asking for sustained support. At the request of Sonia Keller at the Tri Association, Lee Ann developed a graduate-level program for international educators, first offered in 2012 at the University of Kentucky and still offered today in partnership with San Diego State University. Over the next decade, Lee Ann's consulting work expanded across five continents, supporting international schools as they redesigned service delivery models and aligned practice with contemporary research on inclusion, assessment, and multi-tiered systems of support.  In 2016, Lee Ann stepped away from a tenured full professorship to focus fully on the work she loved most: being in schools—working shoulder to shoulder with leaders and teachers to design sustainable, research-aligned systems. Lead Inclusion was founded in 2018 to formalize this work. Today, Lead Inclusion partners with schools, organizations, and educators around the globe to design coherent, neuroaffirming systems that support the full range of learners. The work lives in the space between research and practice—helping schools see through trends, navigate real-world constraints, design systems that prevent and close learning gaps, and build a school culture where every child is seen, heard, and valued.