Anne Browning, PhD
Founding Director
Dr. Browning’s research focuses on the intersections of athletics and academics and student pathways in and through higher education. As Special Assistant to the Dean, she works to connect and integrate academic support with broader campus initiatives, and is currently developing and implementing resilience, compassion, and vulnerability programming and the curricula for the UW community. A two-sport athlete at Harvard University in soccer and rowing, she trained with the US Rowing National Team for several years before hanging up her oars to pursue a career in higher education. She received her master’s in education from UC Berkeley and doctorate in leadership and policy studies from UW’s College of Education.
Anne regularly gives talks to audiences in education, non-profit, and corporate settings integrating themes of resilience, neurobiological responses to stress and failure, emotional intelligence, and self-compassion culminating in ways to foster compassion and resilience in team cultures and leadership.
