Building a Community for Girls ft. Naama Barnea-Goraly

Naama Barnea-Goraly M.D. received her medical degree from the Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School in  Jerusalem, Israel, and her clinical training in Child and Adolescent  Psychiatry as well as a post-doctoral neuroimaging research fellowship  at Stanford University. She then went on to work as an Instructor and  brain researcher at Stanford. Her research, on brain structure in  disorders affecting social cognition, was published extensively in  leading psychiatric and neuroscience journals, and presented in  international conferences. In the course of her work she became  interested in gender differences in social cognition, gender equality,  and the importance of supportive authentic communities, especially for  girls and women. This led her out of the lab and into the real world to  found “Girltelligence”, a girl empowerment app for teen girls and young  women to find a supportive community and resources to support their  mental health and reach their full potential. This episode, we're talking with Dr. Naama Barnea-Goraly, a current psychiatrist, a former researcher and mentor at Stanford University, and a co-founder of Girltelligence. Listen to us discuss the importance and wonders of research, along with the gender inequities throughout the world. Hear Dr. Naama talk about her personal experience and challenges with being a woman in STEM, along with her journey in building a community for girls through Girltelligence.