Mindbridge Center

To change hearts and minds, we must first learn how to access them.

Mindbridge is the nation’s leading non-profit using brain and behavioral science to empower human rights defenders.

We conduct programming, support partnerships, and direct research at the intersection of psychological science and human rights. Through these efforts, Mindbridge is growing a science-driven community that gives human rights defenders access to the hearts and minds of those they serve.

We conduct programming, support partnerships, and direct research at the intersection of psychological science and human rights. Through these three efforts, Mindbridge is growing a science-driven community that gives human rights defenders access to the hearts and minds of those they serve.

Our collective strength as Agents for Change is grounded in our extraordinary ability not only to remain steadfast in the face of the ongoing harm and injustice found throughout the 21st century but in our commitment to seek out ever more impactful and sustaining routes for change.

From the growing threat of domestic terrorism and violent extremism to the destructive and dehumanizing impacts of racism and discrimination to the continued trafficking of human beings to the eradication of reproductive freedoms, and beyond, a call arises that perhaps our traditional methods of intervention and change are no longer enough.

For decades our approach has been steeped in efforts focused on structural, institutional, and policy-based forms of change. And while these efforts were and continue to be utterly necessary, we are missing a critical piece of the puzzle: an understanding and functional ability to engage with the human at the center of the frame.

To change hearts and minds, you first must learn to access them.

Mindbridge uses neuroscience and psychology to access the values, beliefs, motivations, and drivers of violence in order to develop more effective interventions and propel change. We partner with government and community-based organizations in order to co-develop a holistic approach to societal transformation. Here neurobiological and psychological sciences propel data-driven intervention and program design, giving human rights defenders access to the hearts and minds they need to connect to most.

Today’s 21st-century challenges need a new approach. Join us in bringing science to human rights.