William Damon is the Director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, Professor of Education at Stanford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Damon's research explores how people develop purpose and integrity in their work, family, and personal lives. Damon's current work focuses on vocational purpose among the young and on purpose in families and schools. Damon's work has been used in professional training programs in fields such as journalism, law, teaching, and business, and in grades K–12 and college character education programs. Damon’s most recent book is A Round of Golf with My Father: The New Psychology of Exploring your Past to Make Peace with your Future (2021). His other books include Failing Liberty (2011), The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life (2008), Taking Philanthropy Seriously, (2006) and Greater Expectations, winner of the Parent’s Choice Book Award. Damon was editor in chief of The Handbook of Child Psychology, fifth and sixth editions (1998 and 2006). He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the American Educational Research Association. Damon has received awards and grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Andrew Mellon Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Thrive Foundation for Youth, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Before coming to Stanford in 1997, Damon was University Professor and director of the Center on the Study of Human Development at Brown University. From 1973 to 1989, Damon served in several academic and administrative positions at Clark University. In 1988, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, and in 1994–95 he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.