Larisa A WhiteLarisa A. White, M.S.Ed., Ph.D. (née Larisa Naples), is an author, educator, and independent scholar with 30 years' combined experience in mixed-methods sociological research, curriculum design, educational program evaluation, and teaching. She is the founder of Quercus Academy, where she currently teaches. Her research activities focus on the neurobiology of learning, the ways in which people learn, grow, and change under the influence of changing educational contexts and cultures, and the sociology of contemporary, nature-based religions. In her free time, she works on ecological restoration projects in the Coast Range Mountains of California. Read More Read Less