Binyomin (Ben) Glinsky Email & Phone Number

Burlington, Vermont, United States

I provide direct support to Mansfield Hall students in managing day-to-day life skills and building the life skills necessary for independence. I develop relationships with students to provide them with appropriate and supportive mentorship, coaching and feedback.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Burlington, Vt

Burlington, Vermont, United States

My work at Mansfield Hall (MH), a living and learning community providing intellectually disabled college students independent living skills support, brings the opportunity for me to counsel students. At MH, I practice and observe student counseling through evidence-based interventions such as Collaborative Problem Solving, Motivational Interviewing and Restorative Justice. To help students develop their social skills, I lead social events with peer-to-peer interaction, which has nurtured my pursuit to understand the relationship between interpersonal relationships and the quality of life in clinical populations. For example, I guided a group of neurodiverse residents on a community bike ride and created opportunities for conversation. My MH experience will culminate in my honors thesis, dedicated to increasing transition success for socially challenged students from a specialized residential program moving into the community.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Psi Chi is an international organization of professionals, scientists, faculty, students, and alumni whose mission is to recognize and promote excellence in the science and application of psychology. Psi Chi is committed to diversity and inclusion in all of its forms through research; clinical, community, and professional applications; education; mentorship; and organizational leadership. As scholars and practitioners in the field of psychology, we recognize the rich and nuanced factors that contribute to the expression of prejudice, including social, community, familial, and psychological processes. Findings from psychological science and related fields document numerous negative consequences to the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities from exposure to discrimination, whether temporary or chronic.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

With support from the community, I purchase food at the Atlanta State Farmers’ Market, the Atlanta Community Food Bank and Sam’s Club, and then anonymously distribute the food monthly to 25-30, local, struggling families.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Research Assistant for Child Emotion Regulation Lab under the supervision of Dr. Robert Althof; collecting, cleaning, analyzing, and presenting relevant research.As a Research Assistant in Dr. Althoff’s Child Emotion Regulation Lab located within UVM's Larner College of Medicine, I am examined the effects of food insecurity on family and child functioning. During baseline study visits, I provided informed consent, utilize adult self-reports and administer emotional, behavioral, cognitive and executive functioning tasks.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

As a Teaching Assistant (TA) for multiple first-year and upper-level psychology seminars, I graded student reflections, developed new discussion prompts for the course professor and facilitated group or class conversations by asking engaging questions. My experience as a TA has refined my professional interests and approach in three crucial ways. Primarily, I have come to value independence in creating the following conditions of learning: uniqueness, self-direction and self-initiation. Secondly, by promoting curiosity in the classroom, students feel validated and initiate their own learning. Lastly, I empathize with individual learners and seek to understand what they are experiencing.

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Research Assistant for Seeing-I Lab in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth Pinel. In Dr. Pinel’s lab, I studied existential connection, existential isolation and meditation. For a study of racial differences in associations between police mistreatment, existential isolation and suicidal ideation, I performed a series of t-tests and mediation models, which directly changed the team’s understanding of the data. Later, I curated a presentation, particularly the introduction and results sections, which were then presented at the 2021 Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Summer Camp Counselor for elementary school-aged children, supervised activities, fostered camper friendships and good-natured role modelling, and responsibility for the safety and welfare of the campers.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Summer Management Office Intern for the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the world’s largest such festival. Updated contacts spreadsheet by calling all vendor and constituent companies; transported and set-up movie screening materials.

Greater Atlanta Area

I was a Bruster's Real Ice Cream Scooper where my main role was to serve costumers. This included servicing them from the window, scooping their ice cream, and tending the bill. I was mostly worked during the night shift which also includes closing processes. I would wash dishes, sweep, mop, clean freezers, and take out the trash. Working in the service industry, in total, was an amazing experience that taught me a lot of skills I still use today. For example, I learned how to handle customers, and people in general, with kindness and patience.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Solicited organizations to apply for a $10,000 charitable grant. Worked with 15 teenage peers to evaluate 20 organizations and select two deserving applicants to share the grant money.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Monthly play session with kids who have social and mental disabilities provides a prosocial experience. Through social, educational and Jewish programming, the children enjoy vital experiences that they deserve but have difficulty obtaining. We create a community where everybody belongs.