Steff Du Bois, PhD, (he/they) is a clinician with their own private practice, and assistant professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He has published thirty-seven peer-reviewed manuscripts, and spoken at numerous national and international psychology conferences. Du Bois was the recipient of a [...] Educational and Research Initiative Fund Grant from IIT in 2021, to create and test the effectiveness of a "self-compassion app" to improve health among those newly diagnosed with HIV. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he now leads the Du Bois Health Psychology Laboratory, where he mentors graduate and undergraduate psychology students, and conducts health psychology research on topics such as health equity and health in romantic relationships, using community-based participatory research approaches.