Joseph Fridman graduated from Cornell University in 2017 with a B.A. in Cognitive Science, before receiving a Masters of Science in Media Advocacy at Northeastern University in 2019. Joseph is currently working at the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is concurrently leading a project in collaboration with a New York Times opinion senior editor—and funded by the Templeton foundation—that is geared toward academics wishing to reach a more general audience. Joseph also works as an audio producer and has many other talents listed here. During his time at Cornell, Joseph was a member of the Humanities Lab even before the structure existed.