Chiara Marrapodi is a Researcher, Educator and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She is the Founder of The Society for Animal Consciousness and is the Editor of The Journal of Animal Consciousness. Chiara attained her Bachelor of Psychological Science at the University of Queensland, Australia with Honors in 2009 and completed her Master of Arts, Integral Health, at the California Institute for Human Sciences in Encinitas, California. She is currently completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology with the same Institute. She is a 2015 Bernard Grad Emerging Scientist silver medal winner for graduate students and the 2016 Bernard Grad Emerging Scientist gold medal winner at the ISSEEEM Research Symposium.