Jeanell is the Founder and CEO of The EcoSpiritual Education Center, LLC. She helps individuals, groups, and organizations realize personal healing for global impact. She holds an MA in Process Oriented Facilitation and Conflict Studies, a BA in Environmental Studies/Sustainable Agriculture, and a box of over 50 journals full of recorded nighttime dreams. She is also a Licensed Massage Therapist.

Lisa C. Walsh is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among others.

Julia K. Boehm is an assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University in Orange, California. Her work has been published in The New York Times and Psychological Science, among many others.

Sonja Lyubomirsky is Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of The How of Happiness (2008).

Malek Samman is a data analyst by day and a dungeon master by night. His B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University helped him realize he could learn leadership skills through playing and administrating TRPGs. He has performed as a dungeon master in front of live audiences in Chicago’s Out on a Whim Improvised D&D theatre troupe. He has worked diligently to incorporate values and practices he’s learned from TRPGs into his personal and corporate life, excluding the scheming and plotting of others’ doom. Christopher Porzenheim is a writer. He is interested in the legacy of Greco-Roman and Classical Chinese philosophy, in particular, how Ralph Waldo Emerson combined Stoicism and Confucianism to create his philosophy of Self-Reliance—with which he supported the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. When in doubt, Chris usually opens up a copy of the Confucian Analects or Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations for guidance.

Malek is a data analyst by day and a dungeon master by night. His B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University helped him realize he could learn leadership skills through playing and administrating TRPGs. He has performed as a dungeon master in front of live audiences in Chicago’s Out on a Whim Improvised D&D theatre troupe. He has worked diligently to incorporate values and practices he’s learned from TRPGs into his personal and corporate life, excluding the scheming and plotting of others’ doom.

Sonja is Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of The How of Happiness (2008).

Julie is an assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University in Orange, California. Her work has been published in The New York Times and Psychological Science, among many others.

Lisa is a doctoral candidate in social/personality psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her work has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Emotion, among others.

Leigh is an educator, writer, and sociologist. She currently works at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education as the Associate Dean for Equity and Justice. Her research and writing focus on the ways that schooling often acts as a conduit for societal disadvantage, as well as the potential for education to be a tool for liberation. Prior to working in the academy, Leigh was a junior and high school teacher, a journalist, and a state-level policymaker.