About Us

Bridgette Martin Hard co-founded the Psychology One Conference in 2012 (with James Gross from Stanford University) and has directed it every year since. Bridgette is currently a Professor of the Practice in Duke University's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, where she teaches Introductory Psychology, as well as courses in teaching, classroom research, and the psychology of "student success". She is also the director of BRITElab (Behavioral Research Informing Teaching Excellence). Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Bridgette managed the Psychology One Program at Stanford. In 2012, her work with the Psychology One Program earned her Stanford's Lloyd L. Dinkelspiel Award for exceptional contributions to undergraduate education.

Bridgette received her BS in Psychology from Furman University where she studied with Charles Brewer (namesake of APA's Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award) and then completed her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University in 2006. She was the recipient of a National Research Service Award to pursue postdoctoral research in Developmental Psychology at the University of Oregon.  

Paula Hylton is an Upper School Psychology Teacher and advisor at Cannon School located in Concord, NC. She holds a B.A. from St. Lawrence University and M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. With 19 years of experience teaching psychology, Paula is passionate about applying psychological science to help students and colleagues learn and thrive beyond the classroom. Over the last 5 years, she has helped in providing Cannon School faculty with access to resources and professional development focused on the science of teaching and learning. Outside the classroom, Paula enjoys spending time with her husband and two beautiful little girls, as well as crossfitting, running, and reading. 

Josh Lovett is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Tampa. He earned his PhD in Community and Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Illinois Chicago and completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University, where he studied psychology and education (and was a Costanzo fellow under Bridgette). Prior to graduate school, Josh served as a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where he spent three years teaching English as a second language to students across a range of ages and educational settings.

Josh’s work focuses broadly on the social and behavioral contexts of learning, with particular interests in the role of social and emotional competencies in learning. He is also deeply interested in teaching and pedagogy, especially approaches that make psychology engaging, inclusive, and meaningful for students. You can learn more about his work by visiting his website.

Rachelle Tannenbaum is a Professor at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD. She primarily teaches Introduction to Psychology, which is her favorite course by far; she also teaches and is course coordinator for Developmental Psychology. She has been actively involved in training and review processes related to online learning and course design, her department’s learning outcomes assessment efforts, and efforts to reshape the curriculum to emphasize access, diversity, equity, and inclusion. After 25 years, she's still in love with the fact that she gets paid to spend her time learning new things. Her fantastic experiences with Psych One have inspired her to start a similar conference (MAESTRO Psych) in the mid-Atlantic.

Benjamin White is a new resident of Minnesota and works as an adjunct at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Southwestern Minnesota State University, Concordia University, and Augsburg University teaching in just about every format imaginable (remote / face to face / asynchronous)

He places an emphasis in all his courses on assisting students in developing practical applications of material to their individual lives and has experience teaching a wide variety of psychology courses at two- and four-year, public and private institutions.

In addition, Benjamin has served as the Faculty Fellow for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Blinn College in Bryan, TX, developing and presenting workshops on a variety of topics concerning pedagogy, andragogy, teaching methods, and student success with a goal to provide faculty with different perspectives and methodologies to promote success for themselves and their students inside and outside of the classroom. In 2019 he was invited to give an TEDx talk on motorcycling and anxiety for the Blinn College TEDx event. 

He currently serves as an early career mentor for the Society for Teaching of Psychology (STP), a division of the APA, helping instructors who are new to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is a contributor to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation at UTK and was a nominee for the 2022 Slippery Rock University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.