Hazel Rose Markus is a social psychologist and cultural scientist recognized for her research on how cultures shape selves and the role of selves in regulating behavior. She is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a cofaculty director of Stanford SPARQ, a behavioral-science “do tank” that builds research-driven partnerships with industry leaders and change makers to combat bias, reduce disparities, and drive culture change. A former director of the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, she is the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, the APS William James Award for Lifetime Achievement for basic research, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy. Recent cowritten and coedited books include Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction, and Clash! How to Thrive in a Multicultural World.
Jeanne L. Tsai is currently a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Culture and Emotion Lab, co-founding director of the Asian American Research Center at Stanford, and the Yumi and Yasunori Kaneko Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. She received her BA in psychology from Stanford and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the cultural shaping of emotion and its implications for health, decision-making, person perception, and communication. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and Stanford University. She has served as an associate editor of Emotion twice. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association Division 8, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. At Stanford, she has received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching twice and the Asian American Activities Center Faculty Award. She served as vice chair of the Department of Psychology from 2021 to 2024. Her work has been described in various national news outlets, including Psychology Today, World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post.
Yukiko Uchida is a professor and director at the Institute for the Future of Human Society at Kyoto University. Uchida’s extensive research in cultural psychology focuses on international and regional comparative studies, particularly in areas such as happiness and well-being. Her work has led to over 200 publications in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science. She has also been actively involved in academic editing, serving on the editorial boards of journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Cognition and Emotion, and has been a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences. Uchida was selected as a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and currently serves as a board member at large. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 2019 to 2020. She has established strong relationships with national governments as a member of the Cabinet Office’s Study Group on Well-Being and contributed to the Ministry of Education’s Central Commission on Well-Being in Education.
Angela M. Yang is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Boston College. She completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she worked in the Stanford Culture and Emotion Lab. Her research examines how culture shapes the way people make decisions, navigate interpersonal relationships, and pursue well-being, particularly within Asian American families and communities. In 2022, she received the Stanford Asian American Undergraduate Research Award for her thesis on parent-child relationships in Chinese immigrant families.
Amrita Maitreyi is a research associate at Stanford SPARQ, a center for applied behavioral science in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. She previously served as lab manager and research coordinator for the Mind, Culture, and Society Lab at Stanford University. She completed her bachelor of science in psychology at Tufts University, where she worked in the Interpersonal Perception and Communication Lab. Her work focuses on how culture shapes people’s perceptions of themselves and others, the ways in which they interact with their worlds, and how to apply research insights to improve people’s health and well-being.
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Sara H. Cody is the Health Officer and Director of Public Health for the County of Santa Clara, a jurisdiction of almost 2 million people in Northern California. As health officer, she is broadly responsible for protecting the health of the population. She has worked in local governmental public health for over 25 years and led the coalition of San Francisco Bay Area health officers who issued the first shelter-in-place orders in the United States to protect the population as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. She received the 2020 Milton and Ruth Roemer Prize for Creative Local Public Health Work from the American Public Health Association, as well as several local awards in recognition of her leadership during the pandemic.
Ichiro Kawachi is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he has taught since 1992. He received his medical degree and PhD (in epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Kawachi is the coeditor (with Lisa Berkman) of the textbook Social Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, 2000; new and revised edition with Maria Glymour and Lisa Berkman published in 2014). His other books include Behavioral Economics and Public Health (with Christina Roberto; Oxford University Press, 2015), Neighborhoods and Health (with Dustin Duncan; Oxford University Press, 2018), and The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Dustin Duncan and Stephen Morse; Oxford University Press, 2024). Kawachi was Editor in Chief of Social Science & Medicine from 2012 to 2022. He is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and an elected honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He received an honorary doctor of science from the Australian National University in 2019.
