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Dr. Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl is the NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. A renowned expert in social and emotional learning (SEL), her research examines the processes that cultivate empathy, compassion, altruism, and resilience in children and adolescents. Before earning her graduate degrees, she worked as a middle school teacher and later at an alternative high school for youth at-risk for not completing their education. Dr. Schonert-Reichl has authored more than 190 publications, edited two books on mindfulness in education, and co-edited Social and Emotional Learning in Action: Creating Systemic Change in Schools (2023). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, the first SEL-focused journal published by Elsevier. Her numerous honors include the 2025 Illinois State University College of Education Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2021 Janusz Korczak Medal for Children鈥檚 Rights Advocacy, the 2019 Canadian EdTech Postsecondary Leader of the Year Award, and the 2015 Joseph E. Zins Distinguished Scholar Award. She serves on multiple advisory boards, including CASEL, Karanga: The Global Alliance for SEL and Life Skills, the Goldie Hawn Foundation鈥檚 Scientific Research Advisory Committee, and UNESCO鈥檚 MGIEP. She has advised the British Columbia Ministry of Education on SEL curriculum reform and contributed to the OECD鈥檚 Education 2040 initiative and Survey of Social and Emotional Skills (SSES). Since 2006, she has participated in several dialogues with the Dalai Lama on compassion and education, including the 2018 Mind and Life Institute meeting Reimagining Human Flourishing in Dharamsala, India. Her work was also featured in the 2017 documentary The Last Dalai Lama?, directed by Mickey Lemle.