Contributors

Jennifer Dhillon is the founder of Bounce Back Generation, a media and education organization focused on emotional resilience and nervous system regulation for young people. She is also a juvenile dependency attorney representing children and families in the child welfare system. She holds a BA in development studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and has extensive training in trauma studies and resilience science. She is the author of How to Get Calm Before You Lose Your Cool and the forthcoming How to Bounce Back: Emotional Evolution and the Science of Feeling Good.

Liam A. Faulkner, LCSW, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist living and working in Columbus, Ohio. Born in the UK, Liam holds US and Irish citizenship and is interested in the effects of the immigrant experience upon continuity of self.

Megan K.D. Gordon, LICSW, PhD, is a writer and psychotherapist in private practice in the Washington, DC, area. Megan has published pieces exploring identity in several magazines and journals, and completed her doctorate at Columbia University in history, writing on the evolution of the concept of the literary writer and its political and international intersections. As a psychotherapist, she works closely with people who straddle countries and cultures, who grapple with the dissonance and beauty of living across and beyond borders.

Lucas McGranahan is editor in chief of The American Psychoanalyst, author of Darwinism and Pragmatism: William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation, and founder of Isthmus Editing. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Kanika Mehrotra is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and research lead at The Green Oak Initiative in Bangalore, India. Her work is shaped by sociocultural and relational approaches to psychological distress, with a sustained interest in personality vulnerabilities. She also facilitates The Living Room, a politically informed psychoanaly