Dachel Keltner is a Mexican-born American who earned a BA in psychology and sociology from UC Santa Barbara and a PhD from Stanford University. He has taught at UC Berekely’s Psychology Department since 1996 and directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab. His research focuses on the cultural and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, beauty, and power, social class, and social inequality. Professor Keltner is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, The Compassionate Instinct, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence, and most recently, the national bestseller AWE: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life. Professor Keltner has published over 230 scientific articles and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, SLATE, and others. Keltner collaborates with the Sierra Club to get veterans and inner city adolescents outdoors. Building upon his experiences in a restorative justice program with prisoners in San Quentin Prison, Keltner wrote a brief for a case – Ashker v. Governor of California – that led to curtailment of solitary confinement in maximum-security CA prisons.