Director, USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning, and Education (CANDLE); Professor of Education, USC Rossier School of Education; Professor of Psychology, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California; Author, Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience (2015); Co-Author, “Nurturing Nature: How Brain Development Is Inherently Social and Emotional, and What This Means for Education” (2025, Social and Emotional Learning), “Growing the Adolescent Mind: Thinking That Ranges From the Here and Now to the Far Away and Beyond May Build Brains and Enhance Life” (2025, Scientific American), and “Default and Executive Networks’ Roles in Diverse Adolescents’ Emotionally Engaged Construal’s of Complex Social Issues” (2022, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience)