Professor, Psychology Department, College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Director, “The Youth Gratitude Project,” a part of the Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude Project at the Greater Good Science Center, University of California, Berkeley, a research program that develops assessment tools and interventions to promote student success and wellness in primary and secondary schools; Author, Thanks! A Strength-Based Gratitude Curriculum for Tweens and Teens (2018); Co-Author, “Gratitude in School: Benefits to Students and Schools” (2022, Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools), “A Playbook for Character" (2021, Character Lab/McGraw HIll), and Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (2014)