Dr. Courtney Tucker, a native of Decatur, Georgia, is bryt’s Director of Professional Learning and Team Culture. She obtained an undergraduate chemistry degree from Clark Atlanta University and master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her belief in being a ladder, a lamp, or a lifeboat led to the attainment of a PhD from Emory University and a clinical MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. Dr. Tucker has maintained a fervent commitment to serving in the areas of teaching, mentoring, training, and clinical services for the past 20 plus years. In addition to her current responsibilities leading professional learning for bryt, she has served and continues to serve as an adjunct professor in social work, collegiate counselor, private practice clinician, coach, and mental health consultant. Dr. Tucker was raised to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". She seeks out and creates opportunities to share compassion, grace, wisdom, and belonging in all she does.​