Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa, where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Education and in the School of Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Vaillancourt is past president of the International Society for Research on Aggression, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Chief Editor of Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is also a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the author of Mean: The Psychology of Female Rivalry and How to Break the Cycle (Simon & Schuster, 2027). Beyond her academic work, Dr. Vaillancourt is an Ontario provincial soccer coach and is completing her CONCACAF A Licence.