Tania Israel

Author; Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara; Director of UCSB's Project Rise.

Professor of psychology and director of UCSB’s Project Rise, an LGBTQ research and advocacy program. She’s the author of “Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide”

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Jamil Zaki, Stanford professor of psychology/author, explains the science and appeal of cynicism while Tania Israel, professor of counseling psychology/author, talks about how to build…

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