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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Feeling Good: Ancient Wisdom\, Modern Science and the Future of Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University  \nModerator:\nMatthew C. Weiner\nAssociate Dean of Religious Life \n  \nPanelists:      \nStuart Sovatsky ’71\nPresident Emeritus\, Clinician\, Association for Transpersonal Psychology \nJud Brewer ’96\nDirector of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center\, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences\, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior\, Brown University \nKristen Coke ’16\nHead of Core Product\, Calm \nDiana Chao ’21\nFounder and Executive Director\, Letters to Strangers \n  \n\nMODERATOR\nMatthew C. Weiner\nMatthew C. Weiner is an associate dean in the Office of Religious Life. He oversees many programs including Hidden Chaplains\, The Religious Life Council and the Compassionate Medicine Fellowship. He is the principal investigator (with Stanley N. Katz) for the Religion and Forced Migration Initiative. He also leads Live Music Meditation. Before coming to Princeton\, he was the program director for the Interfaith Center of New York where he developed interfaith strategies for secular organizations including the New York State Court System and the United Nations. He holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary. \nPANELISTS\nStuart Sovatsky ’71\nStuart Sovatsky\, with 50 years’ clinical psychology experience\, convened a 40-country spiritual conference in India cosponsored by the Dalai Lama and pioneered DSM-IV v62.89\, a clinical diagnostic code recognizing spiritual issues. He secretly consulted on post-Bosnian War “forgiveness” with the chair of the Non-Aligned Movement\, Janez Drnovšek\, and has received two awards for resolving “profiled shooter” crises without police. He received the first federal grant bringing meditation into juvenile lockups in 1976 and has authored books/chapters on Wittgensteinian/Buberian approaches to divorce; homicidal\, suicidal and other “terminal narratives”; the future of gender; and yogic monastic and family paths to enlightenment. Sovatsky cofounded the $34 million award-winning\, sustainable Greencity Lofts\, was the first Caucasian to chant with South African Sangoma shamans and consulted for the Johns Hopkins University psilocybin clinical study. His current interests are meditative approaches to gender dysphoria\, lifelong marriage and yogic “win-win” resolutions to the pro-life/pro-choice debate. \nJud Brewer ’96\nJudson Brewer (“Dr. Jud”) is a New York Times best-selling author and leading expert on habit change and the science of self-mastery. A psychiatrist specializing in anxiety and addictions\, he has developed evidence-based programs for smoking\, eating and anxiety. His translational research explores the neural mechanisms of mindfulness using fMRI and EEG. He has trained U.S. Olympic athletes\, coaches and foreign government ministers\, and his work has been featured on “60 Minutes” and in The New York Times\, Time and others. Brewer co-founded MindSciences\, MindshiftRecovery.org and Going Beyond Anxiety\, a next-gen approach that combines cutting-edge science and experiential learning to transform how people relate to anxiety (www.goingbeyondanxiety.com). His books include “The Craving Mind\,” “Unwinding Anxiety” and “The Hunger Habit.” He writes the Substack newsletter Inside the Curious Mind. \nKristen Coke ’16\nKristen Coke is a senior product leader passionate about designing meaningful experiences that support people’s emotional well-being. At Calm\, she leads product for the flagship Calm app\, focusing on how millions of users engage with mindfulness\, sleep and self-care tools every day. Her work spans AI-powered personalization\, habit-building features and partnerships that bring Calm to new audiences and platforms. Previously\, she led product at Peloton\, quip and IBM\, where she championed human-centered product design — crafting intuitive\, emotionally resonant experiences through empathy\, strategy and care. Coke is also the founder of The Wedding Strategist\, a boutique consultancy that helps couples plan intentional\, artful celebrations. A graduate of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs\, Coke serves on the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy’s Bridge Council and has held leadership roles with the Princeton Class of 2016 and Women In Product\, New York City.  \nDiana Chao ’21\nDiana Chao is a Buyi Chinese American social entrepreneur and the founder of Letters to Strangers (L2S)\, the largest global youth mental health nonprofit. Since founding L2S at age 14\, she has scaled the organization to impact more than half a million people across 70 countries. Chao recently completed an MBA at the University of Oxford as a Skoll Scholar\, where her work focuses on the intersection of social impact and global mental health infrastructure. A Princeton honors graduate\, Chao juggled a background as a NASA astrophysicist and United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change researcher alongside mental health advocacy. She was the lead author of the world’s first youth-for-youth mental health guidebook\, currently taught to more than 100\,000 students per year. Her honors include recognition by two U.S. presidents\, the 2021 Princess Diana Legacy Award and being named a 2020 L’Oréal Paris Woman of Worth.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/feeling-good-ancient-wisdom-modern-science-and-the-future-of-mental-health/
LOCATION:Frist Campus Center\, Multi-Purpose Room
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Doing the Right Thing: Ethics\, Representation and the Pursuit of Justice
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University  \nModerator:\nElizabeth Harman\nLaurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values \n  \nPanelists:      \nPeter Georgescu ’61\nChairman Emeritus\, Young & Rubicam \nTimothy P. Jackson ’76\nVisiting Professor of Religion\, Princeton University \nTracy Higgins ’86\nProfessor of Law\, Fordham School of Law; Faculty Director\, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice \nNadia Ben-Youssef ’06\nAdvocacy Director\, Center for Constitutional Rights \n\nMODERATOR\nElizabeth Harman\nElizabeth Harman is a moral philosopher who writes about the ethics of abortion\, moral status\, procreative ethics\, what we owe to animals\, moral responsibility\, moral ignorance\, moral uncertainty\, moral epistemology and morality above and beyond what morality requires. She is a co-editor of “Norton Introduction to Philosophy.” In 2024\, she gave the Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford University on “Love and Abortion.” Her current book project is titled “When to Be a Hero.” Harman is dedicated to mentoring early-career scholars. As director of Early-Career Research at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values\, she provides career development and placement support to the Center’s graduate student prize fellows and postdoctoral fellows. Since 2014\, she has been co-founder and co-director of the Athena in Action Networking and Mentoring Workshops for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy\, which have reached more than 250 graduate students. She has been teaching at Princeton since 2006. \n\nPANELISTS\nPeter Georgescu ’61\nPeter Georgescu was the first chairman of Young & Rubicam (Y&R) born outside of the United States and previously served as the advertising agency’s CEO from 1994 until 2000. His career spanned some 40 years in the United States and abroad. He was instrumental in developing and fostering the integrated communications strategy that shaped the course of Y&R’s progress and became the standard for industry thinking. After retiring from Y&R\, Georgescu served on the boards of seven public companies\, including Levi Strauss & Co. and International Flavors & Fragrances. Additionally\, he continues to serve as vice chair emeritus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital\, where he contributes to four key committees. Today\, Georgescu is a writer/activist focused on the socioeconomic crisis facing most Americans\, contributing to Forbes and authoring his own Substack newsletter\, Saving the American Dream.  \nTimothy P. Jackson ’76\nTimothy P. Jackson is the Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Professor of Theological Ethics\, Emeritus\, at Emory University. Jackson has held teaching posts at Rhodes College\, Yale University\, Stanford University\, the University of Notre Dame and Princeton. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry\, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale\, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Jackson received his B.A. in philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from Yale. He is the author of “Love Disconsoled” (1999)\, “The Priority of Love” (2003) and “Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism\, the Holocaust\, and Christian Supersessionism” (2021). Jackson received Emory’s 2020 Crystal Apple Teaching Award for “Excellence in Professional School Education.” \nTracy Higgins ’86\nTracy Higgins is faculty member at the Fordham School of Law where she teaches constitutional law and international human rights. She is founder and faculty director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice\, which supports human rights scholarship\, advocacy and training. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law\, both domestic and international\, and problems of structural inequality along race and gender lines. Her human rights work has focused on gender equality within traditional legal systems\, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Higgins studied economics at Princeton and then attended Harvard Law School. She is a member of the board of PEN America\, where she is executive vice president\, the Global Justice Center\, African People and Wildlife\, the Harwood Museum of Art\, Free + Fair Litigation Group and the advisory board of Princeton’s Mpala Research Centre. \nNadia Ben-Youssef ’06\nNadia Ben-Youssef is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience developing creative advocacy strategies at the state\, federal and international level to influence decision-makers and shift power to people impacted by systems of oppression. At the Center for Constitutional Rights\, she works with social movements and communities under threat in the U.S. and globally. Central to Ben-Youssef’s lifework is a commitment to the liberation of Palestine\, and she is a proud co-founder of the Adalah Justice Project. Ben-Youssef is a member of the New York State Bar and serves on the boards of Adalah Justice Project\, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti\, and Multitude Films. Together with her family\, she is currently documenting the life and vision of her grandfather Salah Ben Youssef\, a revolutionary and freedom fighter in Tunisia’s independence movement who was assassinated in 1961.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/doing-the-right-thing-ethics-representation-and-the-pursuit-of-justice/
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