Brain Trust

Publisher / Editor in Chief

M. A. Greenstein

M A Greenstein a.k.a. “Dr. G.” covers neuroscience research along with research in the visual, design and contemplative arts and sciences.  As an internationally recognized cross-cultural researcher and essayist on Los Angeles and AsiaPacific arts and culture, Dr. G. spent her early writing career contributing to art journals covering idiosyncratic ideas and practices cultivated by artists working throughout Los Angeles, India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, China and Singapore.  As a past contributing editor of Pacific Rim journals including WORLD ART, ASIAN ART NEWS, ART INDIA, ARTUS AND ARTWEEK, Dr. G. broke ground in the 1990’s with commentary on creatives whose work tested and played with the boundaries of culture identity, art and science.  In 2000, after returning to the US from a Fulbright Grant research opportunity in Taiwan and China,  Dr. G. turned her attention to futurist neurotech and cutting edge, global art/science research insinuating mind/body/brain integration.

Writing from Washington, DC, Wendy Swire offers a unique perspective for Bodies in Space from the nation’s capital on educational policy issues being discussed inside the beltway.  As a mother of two sons, her posts will also share reflections of a parent who cares about the education of her own boys and what is happening in today’s classrooms.  Swire is an executive coach active in neuroleadership, claiming, “I can never keep my eye off the increasing influence of brain science on education.”

Stephani Sutherland, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist, science writer and yogi living and working in Los Angeles. Dr. Sutherland understands the nitty-gritty details of how brain cells work, including the amazing ion channels, those tiny electrical conduits in our nerve cells that allow them to communicate so elegantly. Her research contributed to our current understanding of sensory physiology and pain—an area she’s still passionate about, ten years after leaving the lab to write about neuroscience.  

As a science writer, Dr Sutherland’s work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Journal of Neuroscience, The Textbook of Pain, and Scientific American MIND, among others.

After years of yoga practice, Dr. Sutherland has come to realize that the worlds of yoga and neuroscience, which remain strikingly separate, actually have much to offer and gain from one another. She set her sights on exploring and sharing this union through writing and teaching.  She believes that yoga, contemplative practices, and even sensory experiences have an incredible potential to improve the health and function of our body-mind—an idea now being investigated in earnest by scientists around the world.  Dr. Sutherland is currently pursuing training toward becoming a yoga therapist with American Viniyoga Institute and will be helping to shape GGI’s ProjectBodiesinspace and ProjectSITT for teachers and parents.

Read more about Stephani’s work at www.stephanisutherland.com.