Emily A. Hennessy is the Associate Director of the National Center on Youth Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery, Associate Director of Biostatistics at the Recovery Research Institute (RRI), and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hennessy was a Fulbright Scholar to Norway where she completed an M.Phil. in Health Promotion and focused on adolescent well-being. She completed her Ph.D. in Community Research and Action at Vanderbilt University and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut in the Systematic Health Action Research Program Lab. Dr. Hennessy’s research examines factors associated with health behavior change among adolescents. Her primary area of research, adolescent addiction treatment and recovery, is currently funded by an NIH career development award. She has received a variety of other NIH, foundation, and state funding for research with youth and received the 2022 Researcher of the Year Award from the DB Recovery + McLean Deconstructing Stigma Conference for her work on Adolescent Recovery Capital. She is the founder and Chair of the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Campbell Collaboration Review group, Associate Editor of Addiction in Adolescents, and on the Editorial Board of Addiction Research & Theory.