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Laura M. Burgis, Ph.D.

Laura M. Burgis, Ph.D.

Dr. Laura Burgis is the president of The Human Values Center (HVC), a nonprofit CBO dedicated to student development in K-12 and higher education, focusing on resilience-building programs rooted in nature-based curricula and aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Inner Development Goals (IDGs).  The work of the HVC supports collaboration among university partners to engage in regional service-learning programs for eco-impact at scale.

Before forming her team at HVC, Dr. Burgis spent 25 years in academia, serving as Associate Dean at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business and later as the founding Executive Vice President of Claremont Lincoln University.  Her current research agenda examines inner-development curricula and pedagogy in nature-based contexts, indigenous ways of learning, and community development for students in the local community.  She is passionate about raising consciousness and the potential of collective well-being as a collaborative movement, where harmony may be restored and all beings flourish. 

In that spirit, Dr. Burgis volunteers locally with Compassionate Pomona initiatives.  Laura is co-chair of the 2025 Southern California Regional Collective Wellbeing Leadership Summit & Public Exhibit; and is a trustee of Baltazar & Rose, an LA-based social enterprise supporting refugees and former gang members with job skill training and love.

 

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