Featured + Cited

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Viral Op-Ed by Dean Soni highlighting the creation of my role as Director of Belonging in response to the loneliness crisis.

How to find friends and community during the pandemic.

Spotlight piece on CLICK!

Featured expert in this tiny doc on loneliness.

When interviewed by Rainn Wilson of The Office around loneliness, my dean mentions CLICK! as the most popular class on campus.

With a wellbeing lens on loneliness, this article was put together by some undergrad superstars.

Deep dive into the backstory behind the work and its relevance in this current moment.

Quoted as a loneliness expert helping us recognize our normal social need for connecting, as a form of social hunger.

I'm profiled as an innovator disrupting loneliness with a sneak peek at the app, Re-human, we're developing.

The work on belonging at USC and beyond + its origin story, online + in print.

My incredible former CLICK student published a piece on how advice on hugging changed her experience of covid.

Featured guest expert on a podcast creating open mental health conversations for musicians.

Featured guest discussing SMASH! - a pilot project in helping moms form remote social squads during COVID and beyond.

Pastors are some of the loneliest people out there--charged with the soul care of sometimes thousands of individuals yet without a robust network of personal support themselves. COVID has stretched them to the breaking point--so let's find some hope!

Speaking with an online college class related to practicing friendship and relationship-building during COVID.