Pediatrician Avril Beckford is uniquely situated to address parents and teachers about issues facing parents of students in the nation’s finest Independent Schools. As a medical doctor with two decades of professional practice under her belt (treating young people and interacting with their children) she sees both healthy children and those with virus-related, microbe-related, and occasionally culture-of-privilege related illnesses. In addition to being the mother of two Independent School children, she is also a trustee of a top-tier Independent School. Dr. Beckford understands schools and what happens in, and around, them.