Kendall Cotton Bronk is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the Claremont Graduate University, where she leads the Adolescent Moral Development lab. Over the past fifteen years, her research has explored the benefits of leading a life of purpose, the presence of purpose among diverse groups of adolescents, and the ways young people discover meaningful purposes for their lives. She has authored a book, Purpose in Life: A Critical Component of Optimal Youth Development (Springer Publishers), and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on the topic, and she helped develop the Purpose Challenge. She earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology from Stanford University.