Panel Speaker Bios:

Benjamin Baird

Dr. Benjamin Baird, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.​ His work is focused on consciousness, including sleep dreaming and lucid dreaming. 

Ken Paller 

Professor of Psychology, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences, and Director of the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition​ Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Michael Sheehy​

Michael Sheehy is a research assistant professor and director of scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia.