Come join us for a reception and panel discussion to celebrate the latest issue of Greater Good, the acclaimed new magazine based at UC Berkeley. Panelists will discuss the new issue’s contents, including several essays on empathy, and the magazine’s unique blend of science reporting and storytelling, explaining how local writers can contribute to future issues. The magazine counts several J-School alumni among its editors and contributors.

Panelists:

Philip A. Cowan is a Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a co-director of the Becoming a Family Project and the Schoolchildren and their Families Project with Carolyn Pape Cowan. He is also the author, co-author, or co-editor of books, monographs, and research papers describing the family context of children’s development and adaptation. He co-authored an essay (with Carolyn Pape Cowan and Neera Mehta) for the latest issue of Greater Good about the role of empathy in romantic relationships.

Carolyn Pape Cowan is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a co-director of the Becoming a Family Project and the Schoolchildren and their Families Project with Philip Cowan-both intervention studies with parents of young children. She is a co-editor of Fatherhood Today: Men’s Changing Role in the Family and co-author of When Partners Become Parents: The Big Life Change for Couples. She co-authored an essay (with Philip A. Cowan and Neera Mehta) for the latest issue of Greater Good about the role of empathy in romantic relationships.

Arlie Hochschild, is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Among her books are The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Managed Heart, and The Second Shift. She contributed an essay to the latest issue of Greater Good about the “empathy squeeze” in America.

Dacher Keltner is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-editor of Greater Good.

Jason Marsh, MJ ’05, is a co-editor of Greater Good.

Lyssa Mudd Rome, MJ ’02, is a freelance journalist and radio producer, and the new alumni affairs coordinator at the Graduate School of Journalism. She wrote an article for the latest issue of Greater Good about UC-Berkeley Psychology Professor Darlene Francis, who has led groundbreaking studies into the relationship between genetics and environment.