Elena Mustakova, social scientist, professor in adult developmental psychology, and international lecturer, is a psychotherapist in private practice in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. For the past thirty years, she has pioneered the study of empowered moral consciousness across cultures in our complex historical context. She has developed an integrative spiritually-informed approach to the dynamics of individual and social health. Author of Critical Consciousness: A Study of Morality in Global Historical Context (Praeger 2003), she spearheaded a comprehensive rethinking of psychology, as the senior editor of Towards Socially-Responsible Psychology for a Global Era (Springer).