Mary Murphy is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She is the founding director of the first Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences on Diversity at Stanford University, and is co-founder of the College Transition Collaborative, a research-practice partnership housed at Stanford University dedicated to equity, growth, and belonging. In 2019, Murphy was awarded the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest award bestowed on early career scholars by the U.S. Government. She splits her time between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Palo Alto, California.