About Discover Forgiveness

Heather Templeton Dill is president of the John Templeton Foundation. Prior to assuming this role in 2015, she served as executive liaison to the president under her father, the late Dr. Jack Templeton. Dill is the granddaughter of the late Sir John Templeton.

Dill has spoken at various venues on living in a pluralistic world, on the research-supported benefits of a life of purpose, as well as the importance of intellectual humility. In 2020, she received the Citizen Diplomat of the Year Award, from Citizen Diplomacy International Philadelphia, jointly with Jennifer Templeton Simpson, and she was selected by Main Line Today magazine for its 2019 Women on the Move issue. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dill taught high-school level history, government, and economics. She also served as a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation from 1997-2003 and 2009-2015 and has been a member of the Foundation’s executive, finance, and strategic planning committees. Dill previously served on the Templeton Religion Trust steering committee and the Templeton World Charity Foundation board and is currently a member of the board of First Trust Bank Limited. She holds a master’s degree in American history from Villanova University.

Immediately before coming to TWCF, Tina spent over thirty years in the insurance industry, most recently having led and developed the Caribbean operations with a focus on employee benefits programs for one of the world’s leading Insurers, Generali Worldwide. She also previously served as a Director of Care Management Network Inc, a separate Generali-owned entity specializing in the coordination of worldwide medical services and cost containment initiatives.

Tina received a law degree with honors from the University Wolverhampton, as well as a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the University of Windsor. She has been designated a Certified Manager by the Institute of Certified Professional Managers and maintains an Association with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is a founding member of the Bahamas Chapter of CIArb and is a Chartered Director (C.Dir.) having held membership in the Caribbean Institute of Directors.  

Tina was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas under the Magistrate’s Act by order of the Governor General in 2017.

Rachel Bird has over 25 years’ experience working on issues of peace, social justice, migration and the environment. She most recently served six years as Director of The Forgiveness Project, stepping down in February 2024 after a total of 12 years working with the organisation.

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Agustin is an experienced Education and Public Policy professional with successful achievements in the development of innovative approaches to education and the development of creative solutions to solve challenges around education.

Mwasi Wilmore is the Chief Executive Officer of Ubongo International. A global citizen with African roots, she's driven by building a shared sense of humanity, creating a better future through actionable initiatives and leaving the world a better place than she found it.

Canon Sarah Snyder has over thirty years of experience working with communities and senior religious figures around the world to promote faith-based ways of finding peace and rebuilding relationships.

Imam Mohamed Magid is the Executive Imam of All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center in Sterling, Virginia.  He is the Chairman of International Interfaith Peace Corps (IIPC) and the former President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). He is also the Chairman of Muflehun, a think tank which focuses on confronting violent extremist thought through research-driven preventative programs within a religious paradigm.

Peli Galiti, a research scholar in the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a Ph. D in Educational Psychology from the University of Athens-Greece and a M. Ed in School Counseling from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is currently the director of the Greek Forgiveness Education Program and has trained over 1000 teachers. Her research interests include Forgiveness Education and its application in the schools of Greece. She is the author of three books on the implementation of Forgiveness Education and has been selected by the Institute of International Education to teach Forgiveness to postgraduate students at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

I get asked what is my style and modality? To be honest I just love sitting in the company of people who aren't used to feeling seen and heard. I see a person first and then together we come up with goals for therapy. My number one goal is to give you a safe place to own it. When we own our healing journey, it is ours and we can show up authentically in our lives. That's the part of therapy that I LOVE.

Ufra Mir is a peace-psychologist, peace scholar-activist, and a passionate positive changemaker, is a UWC scholar and a graduate of Luther College (USA) and the University of Nottingham (UK). Ufra is the first and only peace-psychologist from Kashmir and South-Asia; and has been creatively exploring and actively working at the intersection of peacebuilding, psychology, transformation and changemaking for a decade now, both in local and international contexts.

Phoebe Tickell is a renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur, passionate about creating opportunities for transformation of people - and through that, transformation of society and the planet.

Igor Grossmann is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he leads the Wisdom and Culture Lab. As a behavioral/social scientist, Grossmann has been working on demystifying what makes up a “wise” judgment in the context of revolving societal and cultural changes. His chief work aims to uncover misconceptions about wisdom and societal change and identifying cultural and psychological processes that enable people to think and act wisely. He is an Associate Editor of the flagship journal for Social and Personality Psychology—Social Psychological and Personality Science, and co-hosts the “On Wisdom Podcast,” aiming to disseminate scientific insights from cognitive and social sciences to the broad academic audience and the general public.

Thomas Burnett is the assistant director of communications at the John Templeton Foundation. He is responsible for identifying the most thought-provoking, under-appreciated, and potentially beneficial findings from recent research initiatives. As an editor and storyteller, he explores the questions raised by this research through creative narratives to reach a wide audience.

Before joining the Foundation, Thomas worked in communications at the National Academy of Sciences. Prior to that, he worked for BioLogos as well as the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. He also served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar in Innsbruck, Austria. Mr. Burnett received his B.A. in philosophy from Rice University and pursued his doctoral studies in the history of science at University of California, Berkeley.

Dr Lola Kola (PhD) is a National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Emerging Global Leader currently affiliated to the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry College of Medicine University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is committed to mental health service delivery and research to improve public health services and policy in low-middle-income countries (LMICs), and research has been supported by the National Institute of Health, Medical Research Council, UK, Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Grand Challenges Canada, and International Development Research Centre Canada. She served as National Consultant for mental health at the World Health Organisation, office in Abuja Nigeria between 2011 - 2014. Her current research projects are on addressing mental health and wellbeing in young mothers with perinatal depression.

Sonia Carillo is a psychologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has a Ph.D. degree in Developmental Psychology and Education from the University of Texas-Austin. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). She co-directs a research group that focuses on significant-close relationships across the life span. In recent years she has been studying character strengths and well-being in children and adolescents, and she and her research team got a Templeton grant to develop a gratitude curriculum for elementary schools in Bogotá.

Suzanne Freedman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Human Development in the Educational Psychology, Foundations, and Leadership Studies department at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She earned both her Masters’ degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was the recipient of the APA Dissertation Award in 1993 for her groundbreaking research on forgiveness and incest survivors, published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Suzanne has been studying the topic of forgiveness for over 30 years and her publications focus on the psychology of interpersonal forgiveness and forgiveness education with children, adolescents, and adults. Suzanne Freedman also teaches a class on The Psychology of Interpersonal Forgiveness at UNI and is the recent author of the curriculum, The Courage to Forgive: Educating Elementary School Children About Forgiveness.

Loren L. Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, president of the Forgiveness Foundation International, and associate director of the Sierra Leone Forgiveness Program. He directs the Laboratory for the Investigation of Mind, Body, and Spirit that studies virtues, especially forgiveness, and how these constructs are related to health and well-being (www.luther.edu/touslo01). He encourages “everyday forgiveness” to build resilience and minimize stress in families, schools, healthcare, workplaces, and communities.

Beverly Pringle, Ph.D., retired in 2019 from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, where she was Director of the Center for Global Mental Health Research. Previously, Beverly served as Chief of the Services Research Branch at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She also provided technical assistance to the Mozambique Ministry of Health under the auspices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before joining the government, Beverly was Senior Research Associate & Managing Director at Policy Studies Associates, where she directed policy research in education. She began her professional life as a teacher and school administrator of bilingual education for children of migrant farmworkers.

Christian B. Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. He is currently the Director of the, Honest Project funded by a $4.4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. In recent years he was the Philosophy Director of the Beacon Project, funded by a $3.9 million grant from Templeton Religion Trust, and the Director of the Character Project, funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 100 academic papers as well as Moral Psychology with Cambridge University Press (2021) and four books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013), Character and Moral Psychology (2014), The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (2017), and Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue (2021). He is a science contributor for Forbes, and his writings have also appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News, Slate, The Conversation, Newsweek, Aeon, and Christianity Today. Miller is the editor or co-editor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (OUP), Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (OUP), Moral Psychology, Volume V: Virtue and Character (MIT Press), Integrity, Honesty, and Truth Seeking (OUP), and The Continuum Companion to Ethics (Continuum Press).