Aashna Banerjee, Associate Editor
Aashna Banerjee is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Ball State University. Identifying as an intersectional feminist, she has volunteered with numerous community-based organizations in India over the years to help improve the well-being of women and other marginalized groups. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, peace psychology, and internationally marginalized populations.
Gunjan Bansal, Associate Editor
Gunjan Bansal has defended her dissertation for PhD in International Psychology-Organizations and Systems at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is originally from India, where can practice as a physician as she has M.B.B.S. (equivalent to Doctor of Medicine) from Mysore Medical College, Karnataka. She later got her Masters in Heath Administration from the University of Scranton, PA. She is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She passionate about human development, international and organizational psychology, long term care, and global health.
Alma Jeftić, Associate Editor
Alma Jeftić has a PhD in Psychology and more than ten years of experience in academia. She used to teach psychology at the International University of Sarajevo and held research positions at the universities of Sussex and Graz. She is currently a research fellow at the Peace Research Institute at International Christian University in Tokyo. Her research areas include trauma, resilience, intergroup relations, and peace & moral education. She is one of the founders of ABRIR, Consortium of psychological researchers from low-and-middle-income countries (ABRIR: Advancing Big team Reproducible science through Increased Representation). Alma's first book "Social Aspects of Memory. Stories of Victims and Perpetrators from Bosnia-Herzegovina" was published in 2019 by Routledge. Alma is passionate about open science, activism and minority rights.
Anupriya Kukreja, Editor-in-Chief
Anupriya is a graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University where she is studying spiritual psychology and conflict resolution. She has a rich prior background in Behaviour Science and Peacebuilding as an academic journalist and science communicator. Hailing from New Delhi, India, her goal is to make academia as accessible as possible to underrepresented communities and publish research that is at the fascinating intersection of several different social and creative schools of thought. In her free time, she also produces electronic music and DJs at queer venues in New York City.
Kisane Prutton, Associate Editor
Kisane Prutton is a licenced, chartered psychologist and a part-time PhD candidate at the University of Derby, UK. Kisane is also practising coaching psychologist and workplace mediator. Kisane's PhD explores women’s experiences of everyday life peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. This has been informed by her interests in phenomenology, visual research methods and feminist ethics of care. Kisane’s first career was in television, as a documentary producer/director for companies including the BBC.
Joshua Uyheng, Associate Editor
Joshua Uyheng is a PhD student in Societal Computing at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include the political psychology of populism in the Global South, the network dynamics of online conflicts and digital disinformation, as well as critical approaches to decolonizing computational social science. Originally from the Philippines, he holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University. He has also previously worked as a research scientist and policy analyst for both government and civil society organizations, with a focus on advocating reforms to fiscal policy and universal healthcare.
Soumya Gupta, Associate Editor
Soumya is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree in Honours Science in Psychology from University of Waterloo, Canada. She has volunteered in various mental health organisations in India and is currently working as a Crisis Responder at a Crisis Text line powered by Kids Help Phone, Canada. Her interests include studying factors affecting social, cognitive and social development in children from infancy through childhood to early adolescence.