Susan Smalley

Agnostic, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Philanthropist, Scientist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Sue Smalley, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a scientist, she published 100+ papers on neurobiological differences in learning, including autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In 2004, she founded a center at UCLA to bring mindfulness, a practice that enhances well-being, to the public through education and research and she co-authored a book, Fully Present: the science, practice and art of mindfulness, on that topic. She serves on the Board of Equality Now, an international human rights organization dedicated to women and girls and co-founded a company in 2010, Cell Ed, to bring literacy to adults using a mobile learning platform. She also serves on Gordon and Sarah Brown's High Level Panel on Education. She is a regular contributor to online communities of Psychologytoday and the Huffingtonpost on a range of topics including education, gender equality, adult literacy, and well-being.

enhancing self-awareness and a balance between reason and intuition..............also - spreading kindness in the world

a quote by Maya Angelou..."people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,",,,...................and a quote by Henry James ....."there are three important things in life - the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind"

writing poetry and painting