Sherry Hamby, PhD is an award-winning distinguished research professor of psychology at the University of the South. She is also the director of the Life Paths Research Center and founder and cochair of ResilienceCon, a conference on strengths-based approaches to overcoming trauma. Dr. Hamby has authored or coauthored more than two hundred scholarly articles and five books, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, and HuffPost, and on CBS News. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, two children, and two rescue dogs, Flopsy and Slim.