Daniel Morris is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Ken Paller’s cognitive neuroscience lab at Northwestern University. His research focuses on sleep and dreaming, aiming to understand the neurophysiological correlates of lucid dreaming and contemplative sleep practices. He has worked with the Emory Tibet Science Initiative to train three cohorts of Tibetan Monastic Scholars during Northwestern’s …
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Erin Mistretta
Juensung Kim
Juensung completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr. Michel Ferrari at the University of Toronto. Prior to beginning his doctoral research, Juensung completed an MA in the same program again under the supervision of Dr. Ferrari, and completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science and Philosophy under the mentorship of Dr. John Vervaeke. Following …
Johann-Justus Wachs
Justus Wachs is a Participatory Action Researcher, organizational developer, and PhD Candidate at McGill University in Montreal. His research and practice focus on integrating contemplative and embodied methods, such as mindfulness, storytelling, and systems sensing, to foster transformative learning and systemic change within sustainability-focused organizations. Drawing on a decade of environmental activism and creative facilitation …
Joanna Guan
Joanna is currently a Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Davis. She received her BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara where she also received minors inApplied Psychology and Educational Studies. She is broadly interested in research examining the link between psychosocial stress and biological markers of health. …
Marissa Ferry
Marissa Ferry is a fourth-year Clinical Psychology PhD candidate at Pacific University. Her research interests include mitigating the impacts of intergenerational trauma through culturally adaptive and promotive interventions in racially and ethnically minoritized children, adolescents, and families. Her current population of focus is early childhood and their caregivers, and she is passionate about community-centered care, …
Josh Brahinsky
Josh Brahinsky is a psychological anthropology researcher working out of the Department of Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill, with recent research positions in Anthropology at Stanford where he was trained in ethnographic phenomenology and Psychology at UC Berkeley where he was trained in emotions measures. Josh studies self-induced high arousal altered states of consciousness, the contemplative …
Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío
Dr. Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont (UVM), where he teaches Planetary Health and Agroecology. He co-coordinates the Agroecology and Planetary Health Research Program at UVM’s Institute for Agroecology (IfA). With over 20 years of experience, he integrates social sciences, public health, and participatory action research, working closely …
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui holds a Ph.D. in Food Systems from the University of Vermont and co-coordinates the Agroecology and Planetary Health Research Program at UVM’s Institute for Agroecology. With over 20 years of experience, Amaya’s work focuses on agroecology, Indigenous knowledge systems, and health equity. Her research explores pathways to agroecological transitions and collective action in …
Dilara Ally
Dr. Dilara Ally (she/her) integrates clinical social work and data science expertise together as a postdoctoral associate at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness and Compassion. Specializing in trauma, depression and anxiety, her research explores how Internal Family Systems influences attachment, inner compassion and perspective-taking in trauma recovery. Dilara is guided by patient-centered intervention …
