Carla Smith Stover is the Harris Professor in the Yale Child Study Center. A Yale School of Medicine faculty member since 2002, she also holds an appointment in the university’s department of psychology.
As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Stover studies the effects of violence and trauma on child development and the advancement of best practice interventions for children and families affected by violence exposure. Her recent book, Fathers and Violence: A Program to Change Behavior, Improve Parenting, and Heal Relationships (The Guilford Press, 2023), outlines a therapy method she developed to help fathers improve their emotional regulation to reduce aggressive behavior and substance use and improve their parenting.
A graduate of the University of Maine, Dr. Stover holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from Alliant International University-San Francisco.
Liza Comita is the Davis-Denkmann Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology. She first joined the Yale School of Environment faculty in 2014, and currently holds a secondary appointment in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. Previously, she was the inaugural co-director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture.
Through integrating field studies, experimental approaches, and quantitative modeling, Dr. Comita researches the dynamics of tropical forests with an emphasis on understanding the processes that maintain forest diversity and ecosystem function. She has led studies on the role of natural enemies in forest recovery and the impacts of climate change on tropical tree species. Currently, she is a co-principal investigator on a $2.45 million grant project to examine plant-animal interactions and the cascading impacts of Amazon forest fragmentation. She has also secured funding to expand her research in Panama focusing on forest recovery following human disturbance.
Dr. Comita received her bachelor’s degree in biology and master’s degree in conservation biology from the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of Georgia.
Amy Kapczynski is the John Thomas Smith Professor of Law. She joined the Yale Law School in 2012 after teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she serves as co-director of the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership and faculty director of the Law and Political Economy Project.
In her scholarly work, Professor Kapczynski develops theoretical and practical critiques of how law contributes to contemporary inequality, precarity, and democratic erosion. More specifically, her work has focused on intellectual property, pharmaceutical regulation, and the political economy of health and technology. She is the editor of Rethinking Law (MIT Press, 2022), a collection of essays on the role of law in confronting injustice. Before her career in academia, Professor Kapczynski clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
A Princeton University graduate, Dr. Kapczynski holds a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge in England, a second master’s degree from the University of London, and a juris doctorate from Yale Law School.