Jenny Woo, PhD

Jenny Woo, PhD, is a Harvard-trained cognitive neuroscience researcher and educator in human development and emotional intelligence. She teaches at the University of California-Irvine, and is the founder/CEO of Mind Brain Emotion. She is the creator of a series of award-winning 52 Essential card games to help people build meaningful relationships, life skills, coping and resilience. Her card games provide cleverly simple, practical, and actionable exercises to help people become happier, calmer, and wiser. Incubated out of the Harvard Innovation Labs, her tools are used in 50+ countries. Dr. Woo has worked across lifespans, from developing young minds as a Montessori school director to supporting mothers as a parent coach to conducting memory interventions for aging adults as a cognitive researcher. Dr. Woo is an author, TEDx and keynote speaker, and mom of three kids.