Dr. Gary Thompson is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) who completed his undergraduate education at both the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. In addition to his personal experiences involving his four children in public schools, he has completed thousands of hours in training/therapy/assessment/legal advocacy work with children in both the private and public school settings in multiple western states. He is also the author of an award-winning doctoral dissertation, which tackled why many African American children underperform in school, and is an expert in psychological and educational testing, as well as privacy acts surrounding the use of these tests in both private and educational settings.