Angie Kaspari Evelina
Angie is a visionary thinker and systems innovator whose work bridges psychology, quantum physics, and social change. With nearly 20 years of experience across clinical psychology, criminal justice, education, and tech, she brings an integrated, humanistic perspective to understanding human behavior and potential.
Angie's perspective has been shaped by contrast in her personal and professional life — working with both over-resourced and under-resourced communities, experiencing both privilege and mistreatment, and navigating diverse environments from large corporations and tech startups to grassroots activism. This unique lens allows her to see connections others might miss, and approach complex problems with uncommon insight.
Drawing from direct experience with marginalized populations and work in both early-stage and institutional settings, Angie challenges conventional frameworks while offering constructive alternatives. Her TEDx talk on criminal justice reform revealed her humanistic approach to understanding harm and healing, exploring how early trauma impacts development and how we might break cycles of violence through curiosity, compassion, and humility. Her current work grounds this theory of change in science, exploring how quantum principles might revolutionize our approach to psychology and mental health – moving from models of pathology to frameworks of dynamic emergence and possibility. She proposes that human experience, like quantum systems, exists in states of superposition and potential rather than fixed conditions, and that even small shifts in perception and awareness can catalyze profound transformation.
One of the things that distinguishes Angie's work is her ability to identify fundamental patterns across siloed fields while maintaining both intellectual rigor and deep humanity. Recognizing that today's polarized social climate often reinforces either/or thinking, Angie is actively translating her ideas into accessible formats that can reach broader audiences. Her work addresses how rigidity and moral certainty, while understandable, can perpetuate destructive patterns, and invites us to examine the full spectrum of harm – visible and invisible, rationalized and condemned – that shapes our individual and collective experience.
Throughout her career, from youth counseling to business analysis, Angie has consistently demonstrated that the most innovative solutions emerge from examining connections across fields and honoring the complexity and possibility inherent in being human. She balances visionary thinking with practical application, never sacrificing compassion for academic precision or letting empathy cloud clear thinking.
Angie holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from NDNU.
Writing & Speaking
April 2025: Emergence Psychology — The Future of Mental Health is Tiny. An innovative framework examining psychological phenomena through quantum principles.
June 2024: Good – An Artistic Exploration of Morality. Multimedia project investigating commonly held notions of good and bad.
January 2024: Reflection on Violence: How a counterintuitive approach to harm might help foster connection and compassion. Brief thought piece.
June 2021: Thinking Differently About Harm. TEDx talk offering perspective on mental health, harm, and the victim/villain cycle.
June 2018: The Reset Foundation — Lessons Learned. Retrospective analysis following the closure of a residential alternative to incarceration for transition age youth. (Available upon request)