Jennifer Isom Schmidtke, Ph.D., earned her degrees in Psychology with an emphasis in personality, psychopathy and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed post-graduate study in neuropsychology at the University of Texas at Austin and worked in neuropsychological assessment in the Austin area prior to starting her family in 2000. Following a hiatus from academia to be exclusively at home with her three children, she returned as a lecturer in the Department of Management in 2007, and in 2008 in the Department of Psychology at CSU, Fresno. Her current research interests center on neurodiversity, the neuroscience of personality, cognition, and emotional intelligence, and the impacts of cognitive and "invisible" disabilities in the workplace.