I'm a developmental psychologist who studies how people grow, learn, and stay well, and who believes that science is most valuable when it reaches the people living the questions it asks.
I'm a developmental psychologist, researcher, and university lecturer based in Toronto. I hold a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University, and my work studies how people grow, learn, and maintain psychological wellbeing across diverse cultural, linguistic, and organizational contexts.
My peer-reviewed research has appeared in journals including Frontiers in Communication and the International Journal of Bilingualism, with a forthcoming book chapter from Routledge, and I've presented at over twenty international scientific and community conferences. As Instructor of Record at eight Canadian universities, I've designed and taught more than twenty courses spanning developmental, social, and applied psychology, including one of Ontario's first university courses on AI and adolescents' mental health.
Alongside my academic work, I've led in clinical and community settings, directing a multidisciplinary team through significant organizational change and integrating evidence-based, AI-informed approaches to care.Across all of it runs one thread: a fascination with how human beings adapt, and what helps us stay well while we do.
Peer-reviewed work in Frontiers in Communication and the International Journal of Bilingualism, a forthcoming Routledge chapter, and longitudinal mixed-methods research presented at 20+ international conferences. Co-Principal Investigator on a SSHRC-funded project.
Instructor of Record at Wilfrid Laurier, Ontario Tech, Durham College, Fanshawe, OCAD, Renison at Waterloo, Trent, and Brock. Designer of a course on AI and adolescents' mental health.
Led clinical operations, policy, and institutional training for a multidisciplinary team through significant organizational change, integrating evidence-based and AI-informed protocols.
OCAP-trained, with participatory and community-engaged research experience across racialized and diverse populations in Canada.
Our brains were shaped over hundreds of thousands of years for a small, knowable world. We now ask them to navigate the entire planet at once.
— Dr. Ali Jasemi
Available for keynotes, expert commentary, advisory work, and collaboration.