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James E. West Alumni Center
325 Westwodd Plz
Los Angeles, California, 90095
United States

Alex Korb

Dr. Alex Korb is a neuroscientist, writer and coach. He has studied the brain for over 15 years and is the author of The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time. He received a BS in Neuroscience at Brown University, before earning a PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA, and is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at UCLA. Outside of the lab he offers personal coaching, and is head coach of the UCLA Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team. He has a wealth of experience in yoga and mindfulness, physical fitness, and even stand-up comedy.

Bruce Chorpita

Dr. Bruce Chorpita is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. While on faculty at the University of Hawaii from 1997 to 2008, he also served a term as the Clinical Director of Hawaii’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, helping to rebuild the statewide children’s mental health system. Dr. Chorpita’s work is aimed at promoting stronger, healthier families and better lives for youth with mental health needs. He has helped train thousands of mental health providers to work with hundreds of thousands of families around the country and the world. He has received numerous awards from local, state, and national organizations for achievements in science, teaching, service system improvement, mentorship, and clinical practice innovation. He is a proud member of the MindWell Pod of the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative. In pursuit of eudaimonia, he recently ran his first sub-three hour marathon and chased one of his favorite runners, fellow Bruin Meb Keflezighi, in the 2017 & 2018 Boston Marathon.

Colin Kim

Colin Kim is a spiritual teacher and expert in the field of breath work and emotional healing; certified in both Vinyasa and Kundalini Yoga. Colin has been teaching and lecturing here in Los Angeles and around the world for 15 years, having encouraged some of the planet’s most notable CEOs, social organizers, athletes and celebrities. He is excited to share his fitness and spiritual journey with us all!

Estellaleigh Franenberg

Estellaleigh Franenberg is one of the more than 7,500,000,000 of the earth’s inhabitants. She isn’t particularly special. She has not achieved an extraordinary status in any category of note. She is the mother of two amazing daughters of whom she is quite proud. She has a really old dog. She puts her best effort into her work and hopes that some of it has meaning. As a staff member of UCLA Alumni, E is excited to share her story .

John Kim

John Kim LMFT (The Angry Therapist) pioneered the online life coaching movement seven years ago, after going through a divorce which led to his total re-birth. He quickly built a devoted following of tens of thousands of fans who loved the frank and authentic insights that he freely shared on social media. Kim became known as an unconventional therapist who worked out of the box, and when he built out a coaching team of his own, launched an entire movement to change the way we change.

Meb Keflezighi

A graduate of UCLA, Meb Keflezighi is America’s premiere marathon runner and one of the most decorated Track & Field athletes in American history. In October 2015, Runner’s World Magazine named Meb “The Most Influential Person in Running” noting that his “universal appeal only begins with his racing.” This 2014 Boston Marathon champion and 2014 USA Track & Field Male Athlete of Year has participated in four Olympic Games and three World Championships, while also accumulating 23 USA Track & Field individual titles. Meb is the only person in history to win the Boston and New York City Marathon titles and also to possess an Olympic medal (Athens, 2004). The Eritrean-born Keflezighi and his family have lived the American Dream. Born in war-torn Eritrea, Meb witnessed the ravages of conflict at an early age while also enduring famine and drought. Eventually, with the help of a generous Italian benefactor, the entire Keflezighi family immigrated first to Italy and then subsequently to the United States – the land of opportunity. Throughout his life, Meb has overcome extraordinary barriers and has consistently emerged a champion, relying on goal setting, commitment, perseverance, discipline, graciousness, inclusiveness, teamwork, support, and acceptance.

Norman Lear

Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes.

Robert Bilder

Dr. Bilder received a bachelors degree from Columbia College of Columbia University in Biology and Psychology (1978), and a Ph.D. in Psychology from City College, City University of New York, where he specialized in human neuropsychology (1984). He did his Internship in the Division of Neuropsychology, New York State Neurological Institute, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1982). Before joining UCLA in 2002, Dr. Bilder held a series of faculty appointments at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine