Nina Vasan

Dr. Nina Vasan is the Founder of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation. She joined Facebook in its second week as User 1110 and has spent the decades since holding tech platforms accountable for what that growth has cost us mentally. Her team built the Stanford Social Media and GenAI Psychological Safety Plans, created the first clinical guide for talking to patients about AI, and established the first mental health safety benchmarks for LLMs through MLCommons. As Senior Advisor on AI to Common Sense Media, she led landmark red-teaming reports on AI companions. She helped build Pinterest's Compassionate Search, now live in 23 countries. She has advised the UN, WHO, and U.S. presidential campaigns. Former CMO of Real, her book "Do Good Well" was a #1 bestseller. Trained at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Stanford Business School, and Stanford Psychiatry Residency, she is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford and sees elite performers at SVEP.