Juliette Ratchford
Dr. Juliette Ratchford is a postdoctoral fellow at Wake Forest University. She earned a B.S. from Gardner-Webb University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Baylor University. Her main research interests lie in the intersection of personality, social, and positive psychology. She is specifically interested in developing contextually-valid, personality-based measures of virtue. https://www.researchgate.net/
Yuyan Han
Dr. Yuyan Han is a postdoctoral fellow at Wake Forest University. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University, as well as a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of social psychology, philosophy, and judgment and decision making. Her work primarily investigates the metacognitive processes underlying explicit judgments and behaviors. Her current endeavor focuses on the role of intellectual virtues, especially intellectual humility, in these processes.
Sara Mendonca
Dr. Sara Etz Mendonça is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program for Leadership and Character and in the Department of Psychology. She earned a B.A. in Romance languages and literature from the University of Chicago, an M.Ed. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on the development of character and virtues in youth and the creation of effective character interventions. Her work has been published in edited volumes such as Developing Gratitude in Children and Adolescents and peer-reviewed academic journals including Current Psychology and Cross-Cultural Research. She has also presented her findings at multiple national and international conferences including the Society for Research in Child Development and the Association for Moral Education. Beyond her scholarly work, she is a dedicated educator who has won teaching awards from multiple middle and high schools from Illinois to Mexico to Sweden, and, most recently, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While working in high schools, she founded programs for immigrant parents and their children to inform them about the college admissions process so that the students could continue their education by attending university. A firm believer in the connection between mind and body, she has both founded and coached various track and soccer teams in the educational institutions where she has worked.