Staff
Graham Reside, PhD, Executive Director
Graham Reside comes to the Cal Turner Program with a background in leadership development and academic training in the areas of sociology of religion and morality. His interests include ethics, sociology of culture and religion, sociology of the professions, and the sociology of emotions. Dr. Reside's research and teaching interests are in the role of social institutions as schools of moral formation. Through the shaping of our ideas, values and sentiments, the various professional spheres provide particular moral understandings of the virtuous self and the good society. As the director of the Cal Turner Program, Graham seeks to facilitate discussions across the various professions about their moral purposes and perspectives and to encourage professionals to consider how they contribute to the common good.
Laine Walters Young, PhD, Assistant Director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions
Laine Walters Young has over fifteen years of experience creatively engaging people on issues of cultural difference and moral leadership across religion, region, and racial background in both immersive and classroom settings. Since joining the CTP in August 2019, she has enjoyed dreaming up, designing, and running the day-to-day operations of the Moral Leadership program.
One of the threads of Laine's life is helping people to reflect upon what we owe each other, ourselves, and those closest to us so that we can treat people better systemically and personally. She loves zooming out to see the big picture of things and then back in to help people breathe, vision, and work toward their intentions.
The best part of her position is working with the fellows, community partners, and many interested faculty and staff members who are a part of the CTP network across the professional schools of law, divinity, medicine, management, education and community development, and nursing.
She holds a doctorate in Religion, Psychology, and Culture from the Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University. Laine's charisms include working with students from around the world, emotionally and socially supporting change-agents, and spending time with her husband and ever-curious toddler Theodore.
laine.c.walters.young@vanderbilt.edu