Dr. Erik M. Gregory, Executive Director
Dr. Erik M. Gregory is the founder and Executive Director of MPRC. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his clinical work at the Tavistock Clinic in London, where he treated refugee children suffering from trauma. His post-doctoral studies took place at Harvard Medical School (McLean Hospital).
He also received master’s degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development and Psychology and the Harvard Kennedy School Of Government in Public Leadership as a Littaeur Fellow. At the Kennedy School, he examined 21st Century models of leadership and followership and their intersections with psychology. He most recently completed an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Dr. Gregory worked on the television programs “Sesame Street” and “Sid the Science Kid” to promote an interest in learning and in particular science. He was also involved with Ron Suskind’s start-up called Sidekicks that uses mediated technology to support learning and engagement for children with autism.
Dr. Gregory has served as a Fellow with the National Cancer Institute in Hawaii, a Spencer Fellow with the Spencer Foundation, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago.
He is a founding member of the Global LBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Humanist Association at Harvard and MIT; and a contributor to Humanists International.
Dr. Gregory can be reached at egregory@mprcenter.org or at erikgregory.com