Loretta Breuning

Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD is Professor Emerita at California State University, East Bay, and a docent at the Oakland Zoo. She founded the Inner Mammal Institute to help people make peace with their mammalian brain chemicals. Dr. Breuning is author of Beyond Cynical, and I, Mammal, as well as the Psychology Today blog, "Your Neurochemical Self." She spent a year in Africa as a United Nations Volunteer, and has lectured worldwide on resisting corruption. She's a graduate of Cornell University and Tufts, and the mother of two tax-paying adults.