Young Innovator in Behavioral Health Awardee

Demond M. Hill, Ph.D, is an interdisciplinary scholar; his research focuses on emotion science, education, mental health, and emotional well-being amid racial inequality. Utilizing critical theories and humanizing research methods, his primary goal is to (1) design public spaces and places of human flourishing with a focus on creating culturally relevant therapeutic environments that promote healing and holistic wellness and (2) develop holistic, humanizing, and culturally liberating tools to promote human flourishing among Black students in schools. He is unapologetically committed to collectively creating a liberatory world.