Casey Fellows Speaker Series

Dr. Niobe Way is a professor of developmental psychology at NYU, the founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity, creative adviser on the Agapi app, and a principal investigator on The Listening Project. She was also the president of the Society for Research on Adolescence. She received her BA from UC Berkeley, a doctoral degree from Harvard, and was an NIMH postdoctoral fellow at Yale in the psychology department.

Her work focuses on social and emotional development, how cultural ideologies shape families and child development in the U.S. and China, and on how to build a more just and humane world. The Listening Project is a school-based curriculum that was created to address the global crisis of connection by fostering the practice of listening with curiosity in schools, workplaces and homes. As a professor, Dr. Way teaches the Science of Human Connection, Transformative Interviewing and Culture, Context, and Psychology. Her work integrates theoretical, empirical, and applied work developed over three decades on the intersections of culture, context, human development and wellbeing.

Dr. Way’s latest co-edited book is The Crisis of Connection: Its Roots, Consequences, and Solutions (NYU Press). She has authored or co-authored nearly a hundred journal articles and books, including Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Harvard University Press), the inspiration for the film Close, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix Award and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film. Her newest book is Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture (Dutton Press, a division of Penguin/Random House), and she’s working on The Culture/Nature Clash and Its Violent Consequences for Harvard University Press. 

Media features include:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/opinion/feminism-gender-empathy-psychology.html