Co-Founder, Social Health Institute; Director, Science of Human Connection Laboratory; Founder, Center for Youth and Connection-by-Design Technology; Professor, Developmental Psychology Program, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University; Senior Fellow Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Co-Founder, Agapi; Principal Investigator, “The Listening with Curiosity” Project; Founder, The Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH; pach.org); Author, Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture (2024); Co-Author, “The Listening With Curiosity Project: A New Approach to SEL” (2026, Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy), The Crisis of Connection: Its Roots, Consequences, and Solution (2018) and Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (2011) - which was the inspiration for the Oscar nominated film, Close (2022)