Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner who researches and translates indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art and honey. Her work is motivated by the twin challenge of healing and generating new realities for the present and future. Informed by research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan …
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Roman Palitsky
Thaddeus Pace
Rui Afonso
he/him – Rui Afonso is a Brazilian researcher interested in the effects of contemplative practices and altered states of consciousness (self-induced and substance-induced) on mental health. His background is in psychobiology and neuroscience. For decades he has been a teacher and practitioner of Yoga and meditation.
Karisse Callender
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 …
Robin Nusslock
I am an Associate Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University where I direct the Affective & Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory. My research program uses the tools of human neuroscience to study how the brain creates emotion and how these brain systems are implicated in health and well-being. I also study how stress affects the emotional brain, …
Elisa Torres
Sharon Lambert
Sharon Lambert is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at George Washington University. She completed her doctoral training in Clinical/Community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with specializations in developmental psychology and quantitative methods. Dr. Lambert’s research focuses on how youth and families experience and manage racial discrimination and …
Nirmal Govindaraju
Nirmal Govindaraju led and conducted professional research on nanomaterials and wide bandgap semiconductors for 13 years in the US before moving to India in 2017 to work on science and math education for low-income children and adults. Along the way, he has experienced, first-hand, the critical importance of social-emotional well-being for children to learn and …
