As a teaching professor, Jhotisha specializes in teaching Introduction to Psychology, Psychology in Popular Culture and Biopsychology. She is interested in creating inclusive learning environments where students actively participate in learning activities and course content. Jhotisha is also interested in finding new ways to maintain student engagement within lectures and to keep boredom at bay.

Meghan studies the changes in health that occur over childhood into adolescence and emerging adulthood. And how our physiology is shaped by peer and parent relationships. She is currently interested in examining the effects of the stigmatization of obesity on adolescent and emerging adult  health.

Diana is an Associate Professor in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program in the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University (SFSU). She completed her doctoral work at Colorado State University and has worked for over 20 years in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Human Capital Consulting, and Workplace Management. She runs the Workplace Technology Research Lab (WTRL) where she collaborates with students on research topics such as workplace technology, training and development, assessment development and validation, gamification, virtual reality, and virtual teams.

Josh was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where he spent three years teaching ESL to a wide range of students. He is broadly interested in the social and behavioral contexts of learning, especially in the social-emotional competencies of teachers and how this impacts a variety of factors in the classroom and school.

After serving as a high school special education teacher, Kay started graduate school in the Community & Applied Developmental Psychology program at the University of Illinois Chicago. Kay’s primary research interests are related to youth mentoring relationships and how to train and support mentors to best support their mentees. Kay is an adjunct instructor at Dominican University, a small, liberal arts, Hispanic serving institution in River Forest, Illinois, where she has taught Introductory Psychology and will be teaching Introduction to Community Psychology.

Paula is a high school psychology teacher at Cannon School, which is an independent school in Concord, NC. She teaches both honors level and AP level introductory psychology courses. Paula has 17 years of teaching experience and is currently work on school wide professional development initiatives to connect the science of learning with the art of teaching.