Shelby Clark is a principal investigator and project director at The Good Project, based at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She leads the Good Project Lesson Plans project, a longitudinal mixed-methods study that explores how teachers within a community of practice implement these lessons and examines their potential impact on students' character development. Shelby's broader research focuses on the development of character strengths in adolescents and young adults, with a particular emphasis on intellectual and civic character strengths such as critical curiosity and global citizenship.