Lin Lim, Ph.D.

Research Coordinator

Lin Lim, Ph.D. is the Dean of Non-Degree Programs at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education in Studio City, California. She holds a doctorate in human development psychology from Boston University, an Academic Graduate Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Education (Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Education), and an Academic Graduate Certificate in Twice-exceptional Education (Bridges Graduate School).  She has been supervised by Dr. Linda Silverman in a post-doctoral clinical practicum since 2023 and will be completing an MBA focused on ethical leadership at UCLA in June 2025. Lin is a first-generation immigrant Asian American who grew up in South East Asia, parenting US-born second-generation profoundly gifted children, one twice-exceptional, and the other radically accelerated. Her lived, academic, and professional experiences across numerous educational settings including private, public, homeschool, radical acceleration, and community college, drive her to create better understanding and nurturance for such children. She is a founding board member of a Texas non-profit - Gifted Education Family Network and is active in serving gifted non-profits.  She currently serves as the immediate past president at  SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted), member of the PECAB advisory board at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), and board director at Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF). She has served on the PGretreat and Gifted Education Family Network board. She is the founder of Quark Collaboration Institute, a non-profit dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing across the lifespan. Her area of passion lies in culturally relevant interdisciplinary multi-systems embodied approaches to human-centered parenting, education, and applied research with gifted outliers. She has presented nationally and internationally in conferences ranging from education, and interdisciplinary social science, to psychology.