Nandita Chaudhary taught at the University of Delhi, Lady Irwin College from 1982 - 2017. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the Psychology Department, Clark University, USA, during the years 1993 - 94, and was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the ICSSR (Indian Council for Social Science Research) from 2012 - 2014. Nandita has participated in international collaborations in the area of culture, children's development and family studies, and has supervised research from India, Denmark, Germany, Brazil and the US. She has also been an advisor to scholars, University departments, national and international agencies, and legal services in matters related to childhood and family in India. Nandita is the author of `Listening to Culture: Constructing reality from everyday talk' (2004, Sage), and has co-edited five volumes: `Resistance in Everyday life: Constructing cultural experiences' (2017, Springer), `Cultural psychology and its future: Complementarity in a new key' (2014, Information Age), `Cultural realities of being: Abstract ideas within everyday lives' (2013, Routledge), `Dynamic process methodology in the social and developmental sciences' (2009, Springer), and `Researching families and children: Culturally appropriate methods' (2008, Sage). She has authored several chapters in books and journals and is actively involved public awareness campaigns regarding cultural issues in parenting. From March 2023, Nandita has been invited as Visiting Professor to the Department of Cultural Psychology at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, for a period of four years. Karen Carolina Crisostomo is a licensed psychologist and a Master's student in Psychology, specializing in Developmental Transitions and Educational Processes at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. Since 2020, she has been a member of the research group Investigations in Cultural Psychology: Culture, Language, Transitions, and Developmental Trajectories (CULTS - UFBA). In 2023, she participated in the Research-Tandem program linked to the Master's in Special Needs Education at the University of Oslo, conducting research on dual minority inclusion. Her research interests include self and identity, language, and their intersections with cultural and developmental processes. Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. He is currently Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published and edited around 40 books, the most pertinent of which are The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998), Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and Invitation to Cultural Psychology (London: Sage, 2014). He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
