Anu Asnaani, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where she directs the Treatment Mechanisms, Community Empowerment, and Technology Innovations (TCT) laboratory. She was previously an Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania from 2013-2018. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Boston University in 2013, and her clinical internship from the Brown Alpert Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms of effective treatments for affective disorders and ways to optimize such treatments for diverse local and global communities to address ongoing health disparities in such settings.