Keynote Speaker

Dr. Emiliana Simon-Thomas

Dr. Simon-Thomas is the science director of the Greater Good Science Center, where she oversees the GGSC’s fellowship program, is a co-instructor of its Science of Happiness online course, and helps run its Expanding Gratitude project.

She is a leading expert on the neuroscience and psychology of compassion, kindness, gratitude, and other “pro-social” skills. She earned her doctorate in Cognition Brain and Behavior at UC Berkeley, where her dissertation used behavioral and neuroscience methods to examined how negative states like fear and aversion influence thinking and decision-making.

Symposium Planning Committee

Dr. Barbara Carnes
Dr. Dawn Clark 
Dr. Julia Bae
Dr. Nancy Gin
Dr. Harini Reddy
Dr. Caroline Spagnola
Dr. Lara Durna
Dr. Katrin Massoudian
Dr. Ada Onyagoachoa
Dr. Karen Oppenheimer 
Dr. Charu Soni
Dr. Amy Walston
Patricia Salwei
Marielsa Aviles-Weil, CMP

PLANNING COMMITTEE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

The planning committee members have nothing to disclose regarding any relationship with a pharmaceutical or industrial concern which might pose a potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest with regard to the planning of this activity.