Lisa Flook is currently a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute where she conducts research to inform educational practice and policy. She has also been involved in investigating the impact of stress on children and adolescents and ways to promote well-being through school and community-based interventions drawing from contemplative neuroscience at both the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA and the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a PhD and MA in Clinical Psychology from UCLA.