Joseph Henrich is a Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution, culture-gene coevolution, human sociality, prestige, leadership, large-scale cooperation, religion and the emergence of complex human institutions. Methodologically, he integrates ethnographic tools from anthropology with experimental techniques drawn from psychology and economics. His area interests include Amazonia, Chile and Fiji.
Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a climate scientist, Zen priest, Educator & founding spiritual teacher of Boundless in Motion. She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain, a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center and faculty for many organizations for courses at the intersection of Ecology and spirituality. She has served as a scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund (See academic CV). In the end, she is just trying to be fully present to pain of all beings in the 21st century. And figure out how to act given the resources she has access to. Her experience is that identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief in presence of a loving community is necessary; that helps us unlock our gifts and serve our communities. She finds herself committed to be in relationship with young adults, permaculture communities, LGBTQ, black, indigenous and other people of color. You can access the talks, interviews and articles that were born of her body-mind here. Please email her at kritee at boundlessinmotion dot org.
I am a postdoctoral research scientist currently working on the biological and psychological aspects of Alzheimer’s disease at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease at the Columbia University Medical Center. My main interest is in applying mindfulness and different types of Buddhist and Energy meditation techniques for the treatment of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. In my previous research work, I studied emotional regulation by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques at the Psychology Department, also at Columbia U. I was initially trained in Israel at the Weizmann Institute of Science as a neurobiologist, with a strong interest in memory and the nature of consciousness.
