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Dr. Robert Waldinger

Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever done. The Study tracked the lives of 724 men for over 85 years and now studies their children to understand how childhood experience reaches across decades to affect health and wellbeing in adulthood.听 He directs a teaching program in psychotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and he writes about what science can teach us about healthy human development.听听 He is also a Zen master (roshi) and teaches meditation both in the US and internationally. His TED talk on lessons from the longest study of happiness has had over 50 million views and is one of the 10 most viewed TED talks of all time. For more information, go to听听补苍诲听.

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Alyssa Goldman

Alyssa Goldman is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in 2020 from the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. Her research examines the intersection of social relationships and social inequality, health and well-being, and the life course. Part of this work considers how criminal justice system contact shapes health and social resources within families. In ongoing research, she asks how the dynamics of social network ties structure trajectories of well-being in later life, including the role of the social environment in shaping these patterns.

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Christopher Krall, S.J.

Christopher Krall, SJ is a priest of the Society of Jesus and an assistant professor of theology and neuroscience at Creighton University. He has a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary research of systematic theology and neuroscience from Marquette University (鈥�22). He also has previous degrees from Boston College (BA, BS (鈥�05), MDiv, ThM, STL (鈥�15)), University of Toronto (MA (鈥�10)), and Oxford University (MSt (鈥�17)). The title of his dissertation is 鈥淭he Human Person Fully Alive: The Transformation of the Body, Brain, Mind, and Soul of Humanity in the Encounter with the Divinity.鈥� He enjoys running marathons, doing triathlons, hiking big mountains, playing most sports, and baking sourdough bread.

Christina Matz

Christina Matz, MSW, PhD, FGSA, is an Associate Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work, Chair of the Older Adults & Families Department and Director of the Center on Aging & Work. Her research focuses on meaningful engagement in later-life and its effects on the health and well-being of individuals, families, organizations, communities, and society. She is a co-lead on the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare's Grand Challenge focused on 鈥淎dvancing Long and Productive Lives鈥� and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.听Dr. Matz has co-authored more than 50 journal articles and book chapters.听She teaches courses in research methods, statistics, program evaluation and aging.

Samuel Aston

Sam Aston is a licensed mental health counselor at Crooked Tree Counseling in Cambridge. He graduated with his master's from Boston College's Lynch School and remains involved in Boston College's center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics and the Psychology and the Other conference. In his ongoing research he explores the effects of online technologies on community formation, gender expression, and the self.