Laura Turner- Essel
Program Manager @ Stanford Univeristy
Dr. Laura Turner-Essel, PhD
• Program Manager, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medicine
• Manages the Clinical Neuroscience Immersion Experience (CNI-X), a high-school summer program at Stanford focused on mental health, neuroscience, and community outreach.
• Educational background: PhD in Counseling Psychology, University of Akron.
• Research interests / professional work: social cognition, belonging, community psychology, equity in mental health.
Key Points of Expertise:
• Has a deep commitment to outreach and inclusion: through CNI-X, she helps bring neuroscience education to under-served youth and fosters belonging and representation.
• Leads “The Belonging Project” at Stanford, which centers marginalized
