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Rena Subtonik

Research Associate

Academic Talent Devlopment Program,

University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education

Rena F. Subotnik PhD serves as Research Associate at the Academic Talent Development Program, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education. From 2001 until June 2023, she was Senior Director of the Center

for Psychology in Schools and Education at the American Psychological Association. The Center’s mission was to generate public awareness, advocacy, practical applications, and cutting-edge research ideas from psychological science that enhance the achievement and well-being of talented children in schools.


She is co-author, with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, and Frank Worrell, of the Talent Development Megamodel, appearing in publications such as Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and the Annual Review of Psychology, and co-editor with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Frank Worrell of The Psychology of High Performance: Developing Human Potential Into Domain-Specific Talent.

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