Founding Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Professor, Child Study Center, Yale University; Co-Creator, The RULER Approach to Social and Emotional Learning, Host, “Dealing With Feelings” Podcast; Developer, How We Feel App; Author, Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive (2019); Co-Author, “Emotionally Intelligent School Leadership Predicts Educator Well-Being Before and During a Crisis” (2024, Frontiers in Psychology) and “Preventative Initiatives to Promote Psychological Adjustment Among Primary Students” (2023, International Journal of Educational Psychology)

Senior Director of Strategy; Chief Executive Officer and Creator, Resilient Scholars Program, The Urban Assembly; Advisory Board Member, Emotion Regulation Benchmarks Project, Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University; Member of the Board of Directors, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL); Member of the Council of Distinguished Educators, National Commission on Social Emotional and Academic Development, Aspen Institute; Subject Matter Expert, National Center to Improve Social Emotional Learning and School Safety; Civil Affairs Officer, Army Reserves; Co-Author with David Caruso, The Educator's Practical Guide to Emotional Intelligence (2020)

Psychologist; Senior Associate Director, Teaching and Learning; Associate Professor of Practice, Psychology Department; Simmons College; Director, Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Science; Professor of Psychology; Research Affiliate, Emotion, Brain, and Behavior Laboratory, Tufts University; Author, Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health With Compassionate Challenge (2023),  HIVEMIND: Thinking Alike in a Divided World (2019), and The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom With the Science of Emotion (2016); Co-Author, Emotion and Motivation (2023) 

Vice President, Practice Engagement and Capacity Building, The American Occupational Therapy Association; Former Associate Professor and Director of Inaugural Masters of Occupational Therapy Program, Wesley College; Author, Self-Regulation and Mindfulness: Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, & Autism Spectrum Disorder (2017); Co-Author, Trauma Treatment in Action (2021) and Raising Kids with Sensory Processing Disorders (2020, 2nd Edition)

International Speaker, Educator, and Consultant; Former Director of Gifted Programs; Author, “Enhancing Social-Emotional Learning With Self-Regulation for Learning” (2019, Free Spirit Publishing Blog), Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century (2017), and Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Helping Students Learn How to Learn (2016); Co-Author, Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics (2013)

Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington; The Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning; Recipient of the “William James Lifetime Achievement Award”, the “George A. Miller Prize” in Cognitive Neuroscience, the American Psychological Association’s “Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award”, and the “Karl Spencer Lashley Award” from the American Philosophical Society; Co-Author, “Brain Myelination at 7 Months of Age Predicts Later Language Development” (2022, Neuroimage), Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education (2019), How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood (2001), and The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind (2000)

Psychologist; Senior Associate Director, Teaching and Learning; Associate Professor of Practice, Psychology Department; Simmons College; Director, Laboratory for Cognitive and Affective Science; Professor of Psychology; Research Affiliate, Emotion, Brain, and Behavior Laboratory, Tufts University; Author, Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health With Compassionate Challenge (2023),  HIVEMIND: Thinking Alike in a Divided World (2019), and The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom With the Science of Emotion (2016); Co-Author, Emotion and Motivation (2023) 

Psychologist; Educator; Bullying Prevention and Character Development Expert; Author, Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine (2021), End Peer Cruelty, Build Empathy: The Proven 6Rs of Bullying Prevention That Create Inclusive, Safe, Caring Schools (2018), Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World (2016), The Big Book of Parenting Solutions (2009), No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them (2005), and Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing (2002)

Psychologist; Educator; Bullying Prevention and Character Development Expert; Author, Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine (2021), End Peer Cruelty, Build Empathy: The Proven 6Rs of Bullying Prevention That Create Inclusive, Safe, Caring Schools (2018), Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World (2016), The Big Book of Parenting Solutions (2009), No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them (2005), and Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing (2002)