Our Leadership Team

Kristine E. Larson, Ed.D., is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Loyola University Maryland. She currently serves as a Senior Fellow for the Human Flourishing Network through the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and is the founder and chair of the Justice for Flourishing interest group. Dr. Larson’s most recent research focuses on integrating, promoting, and supporting flourishing in education. For more information about Dr. Larson’s published research, please visit https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4930-9810. 

Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley is Senior Lecturer in Education Policy at Bath Spa University. Eri suggests that taking human flourishing more seriously is the challenge of our time. He suggests that there is a significant transformative power of human flourishing as a concept: on us as individual citizens, professionals, but also on social structures and practices. Hence, a better future is not only possible, but is inevitable as our understanding of the deeper meaning of flourishing unfolds.

Andrew Armstrong is an Education Specialist at Plan International. He is an educator by training and a humanitarian by profession. His interests span education, sociology, psychology, and poetry. Andrew has been part of the Justice for Flourishing Interest Group since its inception and continues to find it an animating space to explore flourishing as a pathway to transforming individual lives and rehumanizing the world.

Evan Dutmer, Ph.D., is Senior Instructor in Ethics and Curriculum Leader for the Department of Leadership Education at Culver Academies. His main teaching and research interests lie in ancient philosophy, Neo-Aristotelian character education, and Leadership Studies. He is particularly interested in flourishing-centered theories of education and development. He is a founding member of the Justice for Flourishing Interest Group and a longtime member of the Leadership for Flourishing Interest Group at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program. He is the author of nearly 20 peer-reviewed papers and a manuscript on Cicero's leadership theory currently under view. 

Nate Harding is an MBA candidate at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School and a Master of Public Service candidate at the University of Arkansas' Clinton School of Public Service. Having taught intercultural leadership across six continents, advised philanthropists on grantmaking strategy and operations, and coached emerging and established public servants to discover and align their values with their career plans, Nate relishes weaving coherence across networks, research, and strategies to collaboratively envision and co-create a world where all people and the Earth flourish. Nate is a founding member of the Justice for Flourishing interest group.