Dr. Sousan Abadian earned her Ph.D. in Political Economy & Government from Harvard University. In addition she has an M.P.A. in International Development from Harvard’s Kennedy School, & M.A. in Anthropology of Social Change & Development, also from Harvard University. Daughter of a World Bank executive & senior economist, her early life was influenced by the questions her father posed her: “How to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable, often women, children in rural villages worldwide”. Dr. Sousan Abadian earlier research on healing the effects of long-standing collective trauma & cultural damage, was described by Nobel laureate in economics professor Amartya Sen as “pioneering” & “highly original.” During 2017, 2018 & 2019, she served as a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Abadian is the founder of ARIA Leadership Institute for Adaptive Leadership based on her innovative works at Cambridge Leadership Associates. A fellow at MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, she is also the author of the upcoming book, “Free Me to Love”, an intimate account of transmuting the effects of ancestral & other traumas into greater capacity for love & sovereignty.

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