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Lexington High School
251 Waltham Street
Science Lecture Hall
Lexington, Massachusetts, 02421
United States

Gene Beresin

Eugene Beresin, MD, MA Eugene Beresin, M.D. is the Executive Director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and senior educator in child and adolescent psychiatry at MGH. Dr. Beresin also directs the Elizabeth Thatcher Acampora Endowment, an outreach program to meet the needs of underserved youth and families. His interests include fostering healthy patient-doctor relationships, the positive development of youth and families, and destigmatizing mental illness. Dr. Beresin has consulted on a variety of television shows, including ER, Law and Order SVU, and the Emmy Award-winning HBO children’s specials Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales (2000), Through a Child’s Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2003), and Classical Baby (2005). He is an active musician, performing and writing soundtracks for the Clay Center podcasts and videos.

Harvy Simkovits

Harvy Simkovits is a former engineer, business owner, management consultant, executive coach, and SOB (son of the boss). Since 2005, he has been writing and publishing stories about his finagling entrepreneurial father and tumultuous immigrant family. Just Lassen to Me! is his full-length memoir that was published in 2017 and became an Amazon Bestseller. A second volume was published in 2018, and a third will be released in 2019. He is a local Lexington resident who resides with his wife, two kids, and two cats.

Pratibha Shah

Pratibha Shah, BAMS, MD-Ayurveda, MPH, is a leading Ayurveda Expert in the United States. Her pioneering initiatives in the field of Ayurveda, have brought her to attention at the White House, the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Consulate General of India, NYC. For her work, she was also nominated in the Top 20 Women of the Year in 2014. She is a senior faculty and Ayurveda Domain Expert for Kerala Ayurveda Academy as well as the CEO of My Ayurved LLC. She is also the Founder, President of two non-profits: Council for Ayurveda Research and Wholistic Health Alliance. She currently consults at her home office in Danvers and at Well Life Medical, a state of the art Integrative Medicine clinic in Massachusetts, USA. Before moving to the United States, Shah was a Chief Medical Officer with the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), a governmental body in India purposed with developing, education and research in the field of alternative medicines including ayurveda, yoga, unani, naturopathy, siddha and homoeopathy.

Tammy Darling

Tammy Darling Tammy Darling is an educator at Lexington High School and teaches Advanced Placement Psychology, Child Development, and Race, Gender, and Human Behavior. Tammy challenges her students to think about the diversity of human thought and behavior through reflective dialogue, driven by content, about evolving mind/body research findings that are crucial to healthy habits of mind. She founded the Mighty Project in August of 2017, (stands for Mentorship Introduces Great Habits To Youth), a strengths-based positive education project to cultivate character in schools. Outside of the classroom, Tammy is a lead educator and collaborator with Professor Danielle Allen at the Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard University. Tammy is currently collaborating with Professor Hardin Coleman at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development to investigate the efficacy of a developmental guidance activity to impact cognitive mindsets in 5th graders. Tammy Darling was also recently accepted to a doctorate program at Boston University. Link to Mighty website: http://www.themightyproject.com/