Kami is a Doctoral Candidate and Bennett Pierce Graduate Fellow in Compassion and Caring in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at Penn State University, mentored by her advisor Dr. Mark Greenberg. Her research focuses on evidence-based prevention strategies in educational settings, in particular the promotion of genuine personal and social awareness as a way to …
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Tory Eisenlohr-Moul
Joshua Felver
Dr. Felver is an assistant professor of psychology at Syracuse University and director of the Mind Body Laboratory. His research focuses on contemplative interventions to promote self-regulation, with special focus on mindfulness-based interventions. He is particularly interested in how contemplative interventions can be implemented in public school settings with students and teachers to support academic …
Ruthie Pliskin
Thao Le
Kyle Matsuba
Aminda O’Hare
Roxanne Rashedi
Currently a Ph.D. Student in Education at UC Davis, I am interested in cognition, the body, and embodied contemplative practices. I am investigating the effects that a school-based yoga intervention has on children’s self-regulation from an embodied cognitive scientific perspective. I am interested in qualitatively exploring the effects these programs have on teachers’ perceptions of …
Eric Thibodeau
I completed my PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, with a minor in human genetics. Currently I am a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. My adviser is Michael Kobor, PhD. Broadly, …
Barbara Fredrickson
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is most known for her “Broaden-and-Build Theory” of positive emotions, foundational within Positive Psychology for providing a blueprint for how pleasant emotional states, as fleeting as they are, contribute to resilience, wellbeing, and health. She has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles and her general audience books, Positivity (2009, www.PositivityRatio.com) and Love 2.0 …
