Marisa is a PhD candidate in School Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. There she is a graduate research fellow in The Lab for School-Based Prevention. Her research centers on how contemplative practices may inform pedagogy for socio-emotional development. Currently, Marisa’s work examines contemplative practices as scaffolding for identity development and meaning-making in emerging adolescence. …
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Kelly Birtwell
Dr Kelly Birtwell (she/her) holds a PhD in Primary Care Research from the University of Manchester, UK. She is a chartered psychologist, a person-centred counsellor and a trained mindfulness teacher. For her PhD she developed a brief mindfulness-based intervention to improve wellbeing, using the person-based approach to intervention development. Kelly is interested in meditation safety …
James Kirby
James N. Kirby, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer, Clinical Psychologist, and the Co-Director of the Compassionate Mind Research Group at the University of Queensland. He has broad research interests in compassion, but specifically examines factors that facilitate and inhibit compassionate responding. He also examines the clinical effectiveness of compassion focused interventions, specifically in how they …
Bernard Richardson
As the fourth Dean of the historic Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, the Reverend Dr. Bernard L. Richardson is the executive officer for religious affairs at Howard University. Dr. Richardson is perhaps most widely recognized by the University community and leaders across the nation for his prolific prayers and insightful spiritual guidance. Dr. Richardson has set …
Kylie Anglin
Dr. Anglin is a methodologist who develops data science and natural language processing-based methods for understanding educational processes. Her most recent research develops automated methods for efficiently monitoring program implementation in impact evaluations, as well as methods for improving the causal validity and replicability of impact estimates. Her work has appeared in journals such as …
Soham Rej
Soham Rej completed medical school (2009) and psychiatry residency at McGill (2014), followed by a geriatric psychiatry clinical and research fellowship at the University of Toronto (2017). He is a Geriatric Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor at the Jewish General Hospital/Lady Davis Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada since 2017. As of Dec 2022, he has 135 …
Christine Lathren
Christine Lathren, MD, MSPH, is a research assistant professor within the Program on Integrative Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research explores how self-compassion may strengthen relationship health and improve well-being outcomes, particularly in family caregiving and parent-child contexts. Using both quantitative and qualitative …
Bassam Khoury
Bassam Khoury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology at McGill University, and he heads the McGill Mindfulness Research Lab (https://mcgill.ca/mmrl/), where he and his team conduct research on advancing the theory, research, and applications of mindfulness and compassion. The global aim of the research is to make a deep …
Ryan Herringa
Ryan Herringa, MD, PhD is the Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the UW Health Professor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is a pediatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose work explores the neurobehavioral substrates of childhood traumatic stress and PTSD. …
Almut Zieher
Almut Zieher is an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Zieher received their Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, their M.A. in Special Education, and their B.A. in Elementary Education from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Zieher’s experiences as a …
