DOLLY CHUGH

Dolly is an Associate Professor and social psychologist at NYU.  Her research focuses on the "psychology of good people". She teaches courses in leadership, management, and negotiations to both MBA students at the Stern School of Business and to incarcerated students through the NYU Prison Education Program.  Her courses frequently have waiting lists and she has won and been nominated for multiple teaching awards. Dolly’s first book, The Person You Mean to Be:  How Good People Fight Bias, was released by HarperCollins in the fall of 2018.  The book has received rave praise from Grit author Angela Lee Duckworth, Mindset author Carol Dweck, Give and Take author Adam Grant, Morehouse College President David Thomas and tennis icon and activist Billie Jean King, amongst many others.  It has been covered on the TODAY Show, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the 10% Happier Podcast, NPR, and many other media outlets. Dolly's TED Talk was named one of the 25 Most Popular TED Talks of 2018 and currently has almost 4 million views.  Dolly attended Cornell University where she majored in psychology and economics for her undergraduate degree and Harvard University for her MBA and PhD.