Tonje Mari Molyneux

Tonje Molyneux is a Research Scientist and Preventive Pedagogy Specialist at Wellstream: The Canadian Centre for Innovation in Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Human Development, Learning, and Culture from UBC and two master's degrees, and brings more than two decades of experience in education — first as a classroom teacher, then as a program developer at Committee for Children, where she spent over a decade co-developing the Second Step social and emotional learning (SEL) programs and building implementation models for school districts across North America. Her research bridges SEL, school belonging, and risk prevention, with a focus on systems-level implementation and knowledge mobilization across Canadian K–12 education. She is a CASEL Weissberg Scholar, a SSHRC Canada Postdoctoral Research Award recipient, and a published author and speaker in the fields of SEL and youth mental health.