Ariana Turner is a lifelong story enthusiast based in Portland, Oregon. She received her PhD in Personality Psychology and MS in Clinical Psychology from Northwestern University, where she studied the psychology behind life stories. She spent the last few years piloting a new pedagogy, story-driven learning, that harnesses the power of personal stories in the curriculum to drive student transformation and community building. Her mixed-methods research on narrative psychology and story-driven learning has been published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Narrative Inquiry, and others. She is also the Co-Founder of Story Scientists, which offers workshops and consulting services on the art and science of stories to address the crisis of connection. Everything she does is driven by her steadfast belief in the power of stories to humanize society.