Shoba Sreenivasan earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1986 and thereafter completed a forensic post-doctoral fellowship at USC. She is a Clinical Professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC and worked for the Veterans Administration for 28 years. She is currently a forensic psychologist with the California Department of State Hospitals-Forensic Services Division and has a private forensic psychology practice. She has co-authored Totally American, a motivational book, and authored the Mattie Spyglass series. She has also written numerous scholarly publications and book chapters in the fields of forensic psychology, violence risk assessment, and veterans’ issues.