Stanford’s Kari Leibowitz – How to Thrive in a Difficult Winter

Kari Leibowitz

Kari Leibowitz is a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow in Psychology at Stanford University. Her research in the Stanford Mind & Body Lab helps us understand and harness mindsets to improve health and well-being. Kari received her undergraduate degree from Emory University, and her work has taken her all over the world as she organized the 2013 visit of the Dalai Lama to Emory, co-led three summers of Emory’s Tibetan Mind/Body Sciences study abroad program in India, and served as a U.S.-Norway Fulbright scholar. As a Fulbright scholar, Kari lived in Tromsø, Norway, north of the Arctic Circle, and studied mindsets about winter. In addition to publishing her academic work in numerous peer-reviewed outlets, Kari has delivered talks and workshops on how to leverage the power of mindset to international audiences. Her writing on this topic has appeared in The Atlantic and The New York Times.