My Ngoc has a background in neuroscience from Harvard University and clinical social work from Simmons University. She has taught mindfulness for over five years in community, healthcare, university, and virtual settings, as well as in English and Vietnamese. Complementing this are several years of coordinating a federally-funded research study on incorporating mindfulness into healthcare …
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Gabriela Torres Platas
Gabriela Torres Platas, holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from McGill University where she studied the implication of glial cells and their inflammatory contribution in depressed suicides. After her doctoral studies, she pursued clinical research training and Co-lead a laboratory at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal where she conducted several clinical trials to study the …
Eli Susman
Eli Susman is a Ph.D. student in Professor Allison Harvey’s Lab in the clinical science program at UC Berkeley. He graduated from Middlebury in 2018 with a BA in Psychology. Before starting at Berkeley Eli worked as a research coordinator at Harvard in Professor Kate McLaughlin’s Stress and Development Lab. Eli’s passion for clinical science …
Natalie Lecy
Natalie Lecy, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of South Dakota and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her research focuses on mindfulness-based interventions and increasing inclusivity in higher education for first-generation and marginalized students through trauma-informed and student-centered approaches. Natalie has over a decade of experience practicing in clinical and …
Tara Hofkens
Dr. Hofkens is an Assistant Research Professor at the Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning at the University of Virginia. In her research, Dr. Hofkens integrates her background in learning science, child development, and stress physiology to study how classroom experiences contribute to children’s academic achievement and psychological wellbeing from early childhood …
Joseph Diehl
Joe is a clinical psychology PhD student in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. He is mentored by Dr. Moria Smoski. He is interested in translational approaches to studying the effects of mindfulness-based interventions. His other interests include advanced statistical approaches to enhance the measurement of psychopathology and transdiagnostic processes, psychedelic science, …
Marisa DeCollibus
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. …
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 …
