Nina Vasan (born January 27, 1984) is an American psychiatrist and author[1] of the Amazon #1 best-selling[2] book Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action and Innovation.
[5] Vasan was born in Washington, DC, spent her childhood in Vienna, West Virginia, and attended Parkersburg High School.
At age 16, she started a local group in Wood County to engage teenagers in the American Cancer Society that grew into a nationwide network of teen volunteers leading efforts in education, advocacy, and service.
[6] For this work, Vasan was honored as Prudential Spirit of Community Awards National Honoree,[7] an Olympic torchbearer, and a USA Today All-USA Academic First Team member.
[23] In 2017, Vasan was named to the shortlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize, awarded to the best business book proposal by an author aged under 35.
[26] They also addressed issues of suicide, safety, and self-harm that led to changes in the Pinterest platform, including creating a set of exercises for improving user's emotional outcomes,[27] as well as AI, which Pinterest said achieved an 88% reduction in reports of self-harm content by users and ability to remove such content 3 times faster.
Vasan's experience as a young civic entrepreneur led to her co-authoring the #1 Amazon best-selling book[2] Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action and Innovation[3] on how to maximize impact[31] in solving social problems.