Ilya Lyashevsky, PhDFounder & CEO
Melissa Cesarano, PhDFounder & President
Mercer CookEditorial
Emily CandauxCurriculum
Juan Felipe RendonCreative
Movies and TV have the power to reflect our human condition with such emotional force. As cognitive scientists specializing in emotion, we know our feelings can be studied both subjectively and objectively.
It turns out science and storytelling are perfectly compatible vehicles for understanding consciousness – and when you combine them, well, magic happens!”
Mel & Ilya
on the motivation behind
founding ThinkHumanTV
As leaders in the field of emotion science, founders Mel & Ilya have spent decades building the foundation for ThinkHumanTV in the world’s leading educational and professional institutions. They are both ivy-league trained scientists, storytellers, professors, and National Science Foundation grant winners.
favorite
movie
did you
know?
pastimes
Ilya (he/him)
Mel (she/her)
Terminator 2
(& as a father,
all pixar films!)
Matilda
(& a24’s entire filmography)
co-founded tech
nonprofit to alleviate
homelessness
performed improv & sketch comedy for almost 15 years
creative fiction writer (published!)
yoga & aerial silks artist, poetry writer
Our founders also co-created the nation’s first graduate course on the cognition of Social Emotional Learning, which they currently teach at Columbia University.
George Cigale
President, Littera Education,
Previously Founder
& CEO Tutor.com
Susan Fuhrman, PhD
President Emerita
at Teachers College,
Columbia University
Jo Schneier
CEO of
Trusty.care,
3x founder
Richard Lane, MD, PhD
Prof. of Psychiatry,
Psychology & Neuroscience,
U of Arizona
Even if we are not actively hiring on our jobs page, we review resumes & reach-outs sent to contact@thinkhuman.tv
may
the SEL be
with you