Mary helen immordino-yang biography samples

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., Fahmy and Donna Attallah Professor of Humanistic Psychology at the University of Southern California, is a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience and founding director of the USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education.

Her work pairs in-depth qualitative interviews with longitudinal brain imaging and psychophysiological recording to reveal coordinated mental, neural, and bodily processes by which adolescents and their teachers build meaning—deliberating on the abstract, systems-level, and ethical implications of complex information, social situations, and identities.

Her research underscores the active role youth play in their own brain and psychosocial development through the narratives they construct, and capacities teachers cultivate to support student belonging and deep learning. She conducts her work in partnership with expert educators and diverse youth from the low-SES comm