Pamela Cantor
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Human Potential L.A.B.
Pamela Cantor, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the Founder and CEO of The Human Potential L.A.B., whose mission is to leverage scientific knowledge and technologies to transform what people understand and institutions do to unlock human potential in each and every individual. She is currently writing a book about how everything we need to unlock our hidden potential is right inside and in front of us: in our biology and the people we trust.
Dr. Cantor is an author of Whole-Child Development, Learning and Thriving: A Dynamic Systems Approach (Cambridge University Press) and The Science of Learning and Development (Routledge). She founded the nonprofit organization Turnaround for Children (now the Center for Whole-Child Education at Arizona State University), is a Governing Partner of the Science of Learning and Development Alliance, a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, and a strategic science advisor to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and Learning Heroes.
Dr. Cantor received an M.D. from Cornell University, a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
