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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE JORGE CHERBOSQUE, PhD UCLA Staff & Faculty Counseling Center
OWNERSHIP JAMES SALZMAN, JD UCLA School of Law
CULTURAL SOLIDARITY GAYE THERESA JOHNSON, PhD UCLA Departments of African American Studies
and Chicana/o & Central American Studies
SOCIAL CHANGE ABIGAIL C. SAGUY, PhD UCLA Department of Sociology
BIG TECH RAMESH SRINIVASAN, PhD University of California Digital Cultures Lab
SELF-IMAGE GARY W. SMALL, MD UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
EMPATHY MARCO IACOBONI, MD, PhD UCLA Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center
WELLNESS NINA SHAPIRO, MD David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
ADAPTABILITY IRIS FIRSTENBERG, PhD UCLA Department of Psychology
HAPPINESS RAKESH SARIN, MBA, PhD UCLA Anderson School of Management
MEMORY + AGING ALAN D. CASTEL, PhD UCLA Memory & Lifespan Cognition Lab
MINDFULNESS DIANA WINSTON UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
MOTIVATION SEAN D. YOUNG, PhD UCLA Center for Digital Behavior

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