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EPA President%u2019s WelcomeWelcome to the 96th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in New York City! The 2025 conference has the theme %u201cMaking positive changes in people's lives and in the world%u201d and brings forth the myriad ways that psychology students, faculty, and professionals are using research, teaching, and service to strengthen communities and promote well-being. This year%u2019s conference, one of our largest ever, features over 1000 papers, posters, keynotes, symposia, and events! Keynote speakers include Kristen Gillespie-Lynch (College of Staten Island, CUNY) who will speak about the burgeoning neurodiversity movement and Sarit Golub (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center) who will discuss how to leverage psychology research for impact. Matthew Goldberg (Yale University) will offer ideas on how psychological science can help to address climate change, Natalie Tronson (University of Michigan) will explain how the neuroimmune system alters memory functions, and Joseph Ferrari (DePaul University) will teach us about the causes and consequences of procrastination. Lene Jensen (Clark University) will deliver the Harry Kirk Woolf lecture on the teaching of psychology, sharing insights on what a cultural-developmental approach teaches us about diversity and individuality in psychological development. In the Virginia Staudt Sexton keynote, Deborah Tolman (Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center) will share innovative work on adolescent girls%u2019 sexuality and relationships. In the Presidential keynote, I will describe U.S. and Canadian projects aimed at strengthening students%u2019 media literacy skills to equip them with critical strategies for evaluating information. Other scheduled events include the Presidential symposium on social-cultural and communicative foundations of language development, featuring Catherine TamisLeMonda (New York University), Ruthe Foushee (The New School for Social Research), Morten Christiansen (Cornell University), and Eric Theissen (Carnegie Mellon University). Other exciting panels and symposia focus on the United Nations at 80 (organized by Harold Takooshian, Fordham University), transnational perspectives on psychological constructs (organized by Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center), and understanding complex trauma (organized by Cheryl Paradis, Marymount Manhattan College), as examples. This year%u2019s EPA program includes four poster sessions dedicated to undergraduate research, with co-sponsorship from the Psi Chi International Honors Society. We will be announcing the student recipients of the Stanley Weiss Award in Experimental Psychology and Diversity Travel Awards. Congratulations to all the undergraduate and graduate student presenters on the high quality of their submissions! i