Dr. Monnica T. Williams is a board-certified registered clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Ottawa, in the School of Psychology, where she is the Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities. She is also the Training & Clinical Director of the Behavioral Wellness Clinics in Ottawa and Connecticut, where she provides supervision and training to clinicians for empirically-supported treatments. Prior to her move to Canada, Dr. Williams was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School (2007-2011), the University of Louisville in Psychological and Brain Sciences (2011-2016), where she served as the Director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities, and the University of Connecticut (2016-2019) where she had appointments in both Psychological Science and Psychiatry. Dr. Williams' research focuses on mental health in communities of colour, culture, and psychopathology, and she has published over 200 scientific articles on these topics. Her work has been featured in all major US and Canadian media outlets, including NPR, CBC, CTV, Huffington Post, and the New York Times.
John Zelenski is a Professor of Psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Zelenski has made significant contributions to understanding the interplay between individuals and their surroundings, focusing on how natural environments impact human well-being. Central to his inquiries is the overarching theme of happiness. As a researcher and director of the Carleton University Happiness Laboratory, he studies individual differences in happiness, and how personality manifests itself 'in the moment' as emotional, behavioural, and cognitive processes. Recent work has focused on two areas: the causes and consequences of social behaviour (e.g., in relation to the personality trait of introversion-extraversion), and the links among nature, people's sense of connection to nature (nature relatedness), happiness, and environmentally sustainable behaviour.
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