https://www.ewscollective.org/michellechatman daily 0.75 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1334dd07-738c-4abc-b31b-3629813788e9/Chatman-headshot-by-Cherissse-May-circle.jpg Michelle Chatman - Michelle Chatman Michelle Chatman, PhD, Board President, is Associate Professor of Crime, Justice, and Security Studies at the University of the District of Columbia. Michelle earned her doctorate in cultural anthropology from American University and teaches courses on urban inequality, youth development, and restorative and juvenile justice. A member of the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education since 2011, Michelle has been active in numerous CMind initiatives including the 2015 discussion on Race, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Contemplative Movement; 2015 Summer Session faculty; presented at several ACMHE annual conferences, the 2016 Building Communities discussion held at the Fetzer Institute; and has served on the 2015 & 2016 ACMHE Conference Planning Committee. Michelle is a vibrant leader on her campus and directs the UDC Mindfulness & Contemplative Learning Initiative, Dr. Chatman is enthusiastic about spreading culturally relevant and critical contemplative approaches that foster belonging, justice, and liberated learning. She is particularly interested in exploring contemplative practices for racial healing. To that end, she founded The Black Mindfulness Summit, a community for Black contemplative practitioners from the African Diaspora. A practitioner of the Yoruba/IFA faith for over 20 years, the teachings of this ancient tradition, along with influences from her Christian upbringing, serves as the basis of Michelle's contemplative practices. Dr. Chatman has lectured on contemplative practices and social justice at numerous institutions in the U.S. Her TEDx talks, How Africa Changed My Life and Healing the Harm in Schools, along with other public lectures can be found on YouTube. In addition to her teaching and research, Michelle's life is fulfilled by her family, beaches, dancing, and karaoke. https://www.ewscollective.org/lorischwanbeck daily 0.75 2022-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1644279110277-O1J7MOQLD4EWK6EL8HEG/unnamed-3.jpg Lori Schwanbeck - Lori Schwanbeck Lori is a licensed psychotherapist who is a passionate advocate for creating lives of meaning and engagement in both personal and professional realms. A near fatal bicycle accident in her early 40’s triggered a humbling re-evaluation of her values, actions and identity. Recognizing that while our lives are short, our choices have a ripple effect on the world around us, Lori is committed to living in alignment with awareness, integrity and whole-heartedness. She is dedicated to supporting others desiring to have a similar positive impact. Lori’s expertise includes: Individual workplace performance coaching Mindfulness / Attention training Emotional intelligence Compassionate leadership Resilience Workplace Wellness Women’s leadership https://www.ewscollective.org/doloresbernardo daily 0.75 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1642459162938-OJEHCFN57FF5BC0KILGF/Dolores_B.jpg Dolores Bernardo - Dolores Bernardo Dolores is the founder and Managing Partner of Makena Leadership and Head of Leadership and Organizational Development at Calico Life Sciences. She is an expert at supporting clients through rapid organizational growth and change. A sought after executive coach, strategy consultant and facilitator, her experience at working with many of the world’s most innovative, high performing companies has cemented her reputation as a go-to professional helping executives lead in rapidly growing, complex situations that require innovative thinking, rapid execution and compassion. Her clients describe her as “absolutely fantastic. Genuine, and very friendly with a great breadth and depth of experience.“ A sought-after speaker, Dolores frequently speaks and writes on coaching and leadership topics. Dolores has written for Harvard Business Review and has spoken at the World Business Executive Coaching Summit and The Conference Board. She serves on an advisory board at California Polytechnic State University. https://www.ewscollective.org/teacher-page-94hgh-3 daily 0.75 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/5e2b50b0-1301-462c-b6de-ded2cd4d00d0/LoriSchwanbeck.jpg Teacher Page (Copy) (Copy) - Teacher J https://www.ewscollective.org/jannabilski daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1642459384561-I28YPP1LW4KIHLC5T118/Janna%2BBilski.jpg Janna Bilski - Janna Bilski Janna Bilski works on the Investments team at the Ford Foundation, an international philanthropy focused on advancing social justice and reducing inequality. Janna started a mindfulness and meditation program at the Ford Foundation in 2016, where she currently teaches a weekly class. She also leads classes at Kadampa Meditation Center in New York City. Janna is passionate about the practice of mindfulness and meditation and sees these practices as an integral component of long-term social change. She is a strong advocate for advancing mindfulness in schools to help youth learn "inner" tools to navigate the challenges they face and to thrive. Janna is currently completing the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation course at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. Janna received a B.A. from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and completed post-graduate studies at Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counseling in London, England. https://www.ewscollective.org/skyjarrett daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1642459230063-OOR18PLHKWELAFRMVAH7/SkyJarrett.jpg Sky Jarrett - Sky Jarrett Sky Jarrett is an executive coach and pioneer of 21st century leadership. She has a passion for unlocking human excellence and specializes in using cutting-edge brain science to help leaders develop the mental fitness to more easily identify the barriers to their success and crush them! ‍ As a leadership and organization development consultant at one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Sky has 12+ years of specialized expertise in large-scale transformations helping organizations transform their culture, performance, and leaders from within. ‍ Sky is also a certified instructor, advocate, and change agent for mindfulness and has been instrumental in bringing mindfulness to Fortune 500 companies. She is committed to growing the reach of mindfulness across industries and geographies as a way of expanding the human capacity to deal with the relentless and fast-paced challenges of life in the 21st century. https://www.ewscollective.org/resources daily 0.75 2023-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/aa06ef83-3e65-49e2-ab0c-85c5b0dd83a2/Lutz.png Resources Altered anterior insula activation during anticipation and experience of painful stimuli in expert meditators Antoine Lutz, Daniel R. McFarlin, David M. Perlman, Tim V. Salomons, and Richard J. 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Prior to the EWS Collective, Peter was the CEO of Healthy Minds Innovations, affiliated with the Center for Healthy Minds neuroscience research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was the Chief Business Officer at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, the non-profit developed from Google’s mindfulness program. Peter spent many years as a technology executive at Google as well as Dell while living and working in the United States, United Kingdom, China, and Poland. He held management and engineering positions in industrial water treatment at Rohm and Haas and Argo Scientific. Peter serves on boards and advisory councils for organizations related to the arts, contemplative practice, Asian American Pacific Islander advocacy, and outdoor education. He also was a semi-professional rollerdisco dancer and performing musician. Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural and biological engineering from Cornell University and master’s degrees in environmental engineering and international business from the University of California, Los Angeles. https://www.ewscollective.org/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f08d414f5f4477a00337cd3/1594866586466-6W03SK3ZCIDBW9DZ1RUE/image-asset.jpeg Contact https://www.ewscollective.org/ayoyetunde daily 0.75 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/d6b4e224-0139-485b-a2fd-9ad815c215d4/AyoYetundeLionsRoar.jpg Pamela Ayo Yetunde - Pamela Ayo Yetunde Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde is assistant professor of pastoral and spiritual care and counseling and director of United's Interreligious Chaplaincy program. She is the author of Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology and her book on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, religious freedom law and transgender spiritual care will be published this year. Ayo led United's Theology of Prince project, and has researched the spirituality in Prince's music and Audre Lorde's poetry. Her articles appear in Buddhadharma, Lion's Roar, Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies, Religions and Feminist Theology. She is an interfaith Buddhist practitioner. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., M.A., Th.D., was the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at University of the West, Fall, 2016. Ayo earned her Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Counseling degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. She earned her M.A. in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University in Oakland, CA and her law degree from Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington. Ayo is a pastoral counselor in private practice, and has also worked in spiritual care in hospital, hospice, and mental health care settings. She is a Community Dharma Leader certified by Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. https://www.ewscollective.org/programs daily 0.75 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/b46db47c-0ac6-4f1d-ad7b-1932e71925f4/Consultingimagecrop.jpg Programs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/9794b6a9-82e6-4b0f-8de6-ff71e87d2196/portugal+teaching+15.jpg Programs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.ewscollective.org/rosecratsley daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1642459337658-HG0FGCBD0MWYH2PM9U42/RoseCratsley.jpg Rose Cratsley - Rose Cratsley Rose is a cross-cultural mindfulness expert, child-specialist, educator, and Founder of Ivy Child International. Rose was born and raised in New York to parents who immigrated from Kerala, India. Rose’s parents were deeply devoted to mindfulness practice. Rose’s interests in music and the arts developed from a young age and led her to creating multiple modalities to address and educate groups on health issues. Beginning as a teenager serving slum dwellers in India, to teaching art and music to street children in rural villages, to now working within systems to build mindfulness across cities and organizations. Rose found her passion in education and social change. Her research interests range from applied positive psychology, the study of human flourishing, and mindfulness-based learning with children/youth to systems of education and care with a special focus on cross-cultural competencies. Her professional experiences have led her to partnering with UNICEF and World Vision. The Worcester Business Journal honored Rose as one of the “40 Under 40 Rising Stars” in Central Massachusetts in 2010, 2011 “Young Leaders pioneering global social change,” “Top 12 People Making a Difference in Central Massachusetts” in 2012 and named “Women Leading In Central Massachusetts” in 2013/2014 and a featured TEDx speaker on “Unlocking Children’s Potential Through Mindfulness” in 2014. Ivy Child International was recognized as an “Essential Agent of Change” by the Department of Public Health in 2018. https://www.ewscollective.org/vascogaspar daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1644100066814-QAHJ27D1RMZPAQ2EIH7N/vascogaspar.jpg Vasco Gaspar - Vasco Gaspar Vasco works in the fields of Awareness-Based Human Flourishing and Conscious Leadership, inspiring change and transformation worldwide for a more human and compassionate world. Certified in a wide range of awareness-based technologies (e.g. Mindfulness, Presencing, Heartfulness, SPT, IFS, Polyvagal Theory and Compassionate Inquiry) and trained directly by some of the world’s greatest though leaders in these fields, he has been working with individuals, teams and organizations all over the world, reaching more than 30.000 people in the last decade. Works closely with different global NGO's like the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, the Heartfulness Institute and the Presencing Institute. What drives him is his love for nature and beauty, being a positive activist for the protection of the planet through an action driven by (higher) Self energy. Spends most of his time traveling or in Silence, exploring the mysteries of the inner and outer worlds. https://www.ewscollective.org/roydezhongchen daily 0.75 2022-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/9601843a-9709-463a-90b5-5bfa9ef3a92e/roychen.jpg Roy (Dezhong) Chen - Roy (Dezhong) Chen Roy is the Chief Executive Officer of the Taiwan Mindfulness Workshop. He is a leading figure in field of mindfulness in Taiwan and was responsible for introducing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to Taiwan’s medical system and corporations. Roy was a Buddhist monk for 8 years before he re-entered lay life and founded the Taiwan Mindfulness Workshop. He has been teaching in public courses as well as at Tawian Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Quanta Computer, Uni-President Group, Coca Cola, Cathay Life Insurance, Yushan Financial Holdings, etc. He is a certified Mindfluness-Based Stress Reduction (MSBR) instructor and trainer and a Search Inside Yourself (SIY) certified teacher. He holds a master’s degree in Psychological Counseling from Michigan State University. https://www.ewscollective.org/stephstern daily 0.75 2023-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/2294b1b7-6764-4fe7-871d-6b16e0ec5c35/Steph+Stern.jpeg Steph Stern - Steph Stern Steph is a mindfulness and emotional intelligence teacher as well as a coach and Internal Family Systems practitioner. She helps anxious overachievers orient to their own inner compass. Steph is a former global leadership consultant and over a decade of experience working on energy-efficiency and environmental issues. Steph holds a masters in city planning and is a certified coach. She has a passion for helping people find more fulfillment in their work and lives. Steph’s background and training includes: Internal Family Systems Level 1 and Program Assistantship Wellcoaches® Certified Coach and National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach Facilitator for the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program developed at Google Previously: Coach with The Muse and Career Expert with Cleo https://www.ewscollective.org/kellyboys daily 0.75 2022-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1645589794363-P1EH6C4WEBC3IJ0WNGFB/kellyphotojulia.jpg Kelly Boys - Kelly Boys Kelly Boys is a mindfulness trainer and coach, and consults with institutions to develop mindfulness programs at scale. She is the author of The Blind Spot Effect: How to Stop Missing What's Right in Front of You. She holds a degree in Intercultural Religious Studies and has co-designed and delivered mindfulness and resilience programs for the UN, Google, and in San Quentin State Prison. She specializes in trauma-informed and mindfulness-based yoga nidra meditation, and her voice can be found on the Oura Ring and many other meditation apps. She currently works with the Foundation for Mindful Society to help grow their Mindful Cities Initiative across America. Kelly is passionate about the intersection of deep spiritual insight and applied mindfulness. https://www.ewscollective.org/reggiehubbard daily 0.75 2022-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/9056755a-f1ad-4835-8912-5a06a55e80b7/ReggieHubbardHeadshot_720x+%281%29.jpg Reggie Hubbard - Reggie Hubbard Reggie is an internationally-recognized yoga and meditation teacher and the founder and Chief Serving Officer of Active Peace Yoga. His yoga and meditation practice have served as a sanctuary of peace and perspective while navigating the stresses of being a black man in the world and serving in pressure filled jobs at the height of politics. Reggie's life work sits at the intersection of bringing more peace and balance to activists; guiding the wellness community toward being more engaged, concerned citizens; and, enhancing the well-being of all walks of life. Reggie has taught Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, major labor unions, leading progressive organizations and individuals from all walks of life—simple tools for managing stress and bringing peace to mind, body and spirit. In addition to his yoga teaching practice, Reggie has held many senior strategic and logistical roles across a variety of fields, ranging from global marketing, digital and community organizing, government relations, international education to Presidential campaigning. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA in international strategy from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium. https://www.ewscollective.org/c2i-topics daily 0.75 2022-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/e32ccf49-57bd-4dcf-b894-59cafcfe471e/AroHa_02.jpg https://www.ewscollective.org/rendamadrigal daily 0.75 2023-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/1688535706556-VB3E9B34K7RYAX52JEVU/RendaMadrigal.png Renda Dionne Madrigal, Ph.D. - Renda Dionne Madrigal, Ph.D Renda Dionne Madrigal, Ph.D., is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, TA/Advisor for the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Mindfulness Awareness Research Center Teacher Training Program, certified with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Stanford Certified Applied Mindfulness Compassion Educator/Consultant, Registered Drama Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. She was featured on the cover of the February 2018 edition of Mindful Magazine and is featured as a 2022 Powerful Woman of Mindfulness (August edition). She is faculty at the Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles and California Indian Nations College, President of Mindful Practice Inc., and is getting her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Dr. Dionne Madrigal specializes in embodied mindfulness practices and Story Medicine. She has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist for over twenty-five years. She combines mindfulness, somatic (body-based) therapies, and story in her collaborative coaching programs. She is involved in healing theatre and has appeared in indigenous plays written by her daughters, Menil and Her Heart and Wildflower: Indigenous Spirit. In her spare time, she enjoys writing fiction featuring Indigenous female protagonists who save the world. Her book The Mindful Family Guidebook is available through Parallax Press and Penguin Random House and was listed as a Best Book of Mindfulness 2021 by Mindful Magazine. She is currently working on her next book Story Medicine. https://www.ewscollective.org/saraking daily 0.75 2023-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/f6a34cf4-253f-43fa-bff9-6b0d66104486/Sara-Japan-headshot-version-2-529x705.jpg Dr Sara King - Dr. Sará King Dr. Sará King is a Mother, a neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, medical anthropologist, social entrepreneur, public speaker, and certified yoga and meditation instructor. She is an internationally recognized thought leader in the interdisciplinary field that examines the role of social justice, art, and mindfulness in neuroscience. She specializes in researching and teaching about the relationship between mindfulness, community alternative medicine, and social justice with an emphasis on examining the relationship between individual and collective awareness as it relates to well-being and the healing of intergenerational trauma. She currently works as an NIH post-doctoral fellow in Neurology at Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) in the Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Neurological Disorders. Dr. King is also a member of Mobius, a non-profit supporting compassion in tech, is guest faculty in the MNDFL mindfulness certification program, as well as she is the Co-Director for the Embodied Social Justice Certificate program alongside Rev. Angel kyodo Williams and Dr. Rae Johnson. Since 2019, she has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, including the Oregon Fellowship for Diversity in Research, the Society for Neuroscience Neuroscience Scholars award, the Garrison Institute Fellowship and the Restored Warriors Fellowship. She is also a part of Google’s Vitality Labs – their well-being think tank, as a resident expert in the relationship between individual and collective healing and well-being. Dr. King is the creator of the “Science of Social Justice” framework for research and facilitation which stipulates that well-being and social justice are one and the same thing, as well as the “Systems-Based Awareness Map” a model of the relationship between individual and collective awareness and well-being. She has been invited to give keynotes, offer scientific consulting, creative collaboration, and to create trauma healing circles and meditations based off of her research for Nike, the Jordan Brand, the Ford Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, Google, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, Oxford University, Columbia University, OHSU, UCLA, UCSF, and Harvard Medical School, among others. Dr. King is a regular collaborator with the Museum of Modern Art in NY. Her first collaboration with the MoMA NY was a meditation based off of her “Science of Social Justice” research framework, reocrded through their “Artful Practices for Well-Being” project. This marked the first time that a Black woman scientist has had her original scientific framework featured as a part of an internationally acclaimed art exhibit – featuring the work of the world renowned African-American artist Betye Saar. It will be on display – in person and virtually – at the MoMA for all of 2021. Dr. King’s second collaboration with the MoMA, entitled “The Art and Science of Hope and Justice” was developed with her mentor Dr. Dan Siegel and their colleague, musician and poet Orlando Villaraga. This project was picked up by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to be launched as a part of their 75th anniversary celebration. Her most recent collaboration with MoMA NY was “Awareness and Art as a Catalyst for Healing” with Orlando Villaraga, the first university-affiliated study in MoMA’s history. She has also recently worked closely with the Ford Foundation for Social Justice in NY, and the Huntington Library and Art Museum in California to create meditations curated specifically for their world-class art collections. Sará received a B.A. in Linguistics, and a B.A. in Black Studies from Pitzer College in 2005, minoring in Spanish. Afterwards, she received a Masters in Afro-American Studies and Political Science from U.C.L.A., where she concentrated in Education. During her M.A. program, she studied the politics of the post-racial phenomenon and it’s implications for pervasive educational inequalities. Recently, she earned her Ph.D. in Education at U.C.L.A. in 2017, in their division of Urban Schooling, where she concentrated in anthropology and neuroscience to develop her methodological approach as a mixed-methods researcher and ethnographer. Sará is honored to have been mentored by her advisors Dr. Thomas Philip (U.C.L.A.) and Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang (U.S.C.) during her doctoral program. Her dissertation research examined the way low-SES urban students express resilience, navigate well-being, and complex interpersonal relationships in the context of a school-based yoga and meditation intervention, making history as the very first in U.C.L.A.’s department of education to explore the impact of yoga and meditation in urban schools from a neuroscientific and critical theorist/anti-oppression point of view. Dr. King is also very proud to have been a participant in the Dalai Lama’s Mind and Life Institute Inaugural International Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan in 2019. Here, she was one of 75 thought leaders and scholars in the field of meditation research invited to discuss the the latest advances in research in neuroscience, psychology, and Buddhist philosophy to produce innovative approaches in the advancement of contemplative studies. Her research and writing have been featured in Lion’s Roar, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Voyage LA Magazine, and the Journal for Contemplative Inquiry, and she speaks regularly at conferences merging science, spirituality, contemplative practices and well-being such as the Collective Trauma Summit, The Science and Non-Duality Conference, Wisdom 2.0 and the Well-Being Summit. In 2021, she was named “One-To-Watch” by Mindful Magazine, as well as she made the November cover of Yoga Journal Magazine as a “Game Changer” for her work bridging science, social justice and contemplative practices. Most recently, in 2022 she was also named one of the “Ten Powerful Women in Mindfulness” by Mindful Magazine. https://www.ewscollective.org/lianestephan daily 0.75 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/9fea3273-1570-4b69-ac2a-fdcd2479390b/Liane+Stephan.jpg Liane Stephan - Liane Stephan Liane Stephan is the co-founder and co-managing director of both awaris GmbH, a globally-organized organization bringing mindfulness-based interventions to the corporate world and the Inner Green Deal, a non-profit organization bringing the inner dimension of sustainability to diverse communities. In addition to holding a MA in Sport Science and Sports Psychology, Liane has studied contemplative methods her entire adult life as well as somatic approaches such as Body-Mind -Centering and Feldenkrais. She holds a black belt in Aikido and has 38 years’ experience as a consultant in Coaching, Leadership Development, and Organizational Change and Systems Thinking. https://www.ewscollective.org/maiyaevans daily 0.75 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/234517e1-90d5-4f32-a646-166a206a2054/Maiya+Evans+Headshot.jpg Maiya Lanae Evans - Maiya Lanae Evans Maiya Lanae Evans is a health educator, entrepreneur, and consultant whose work examines the intersection between holistic health, public health, and social justice. She is an Assistant Professor in Health Sciences at Skyline College and also lectures at the Holistic Health and Public Health departments at San Francisco State University. Maiya is also a diversity consultant with the nonprofit The Mosaic Project and has worked as a health educator at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Maiya produces a health and wellness podcast called The Hey Girl Health Show, which focuses on health issues that impact women of color and the communities they live in. She was a Stanford EPIC fellow from 2020-2021. Maiya earned her Master’s in Public Health from San Francisco State University where she was also certified in Holistic Health. https://www.ewscollective.org/dekilachungyalpa daily 0.75 2023-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/fe14f255-edf1-4554-8eff-54a243d21319/Dekila2017-e1671464896262.jpg Dekila Chungyalpa - Dekila Chungyalpa Dekila is the founder and director of the Loka Initiative. She is an accomplished environmental program director, with 20+ years of experience in designing and implementing global conservation and climate strategies and projects. Known as an innovator in the environmental field, Dekila has expertise in faith-led environmental and climate partnerships, biodiversity landscape and river basin strategy design, and community-based conservation. She began her career in 2001 working on community-based conservation in the Eastern Himalayas and went on to work on climate adaptation and free flowing rivers in the Mekong region for the World Wildlife Fund in 2004. In 2008, she helped establish Khoryug, an association of over 50 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries implementing environmental projects across the Himalayas under the auspices of His Holiness the Karmapa. In 2009, Dekila founded and led WWF Sacred Earth, a 5-year pilot program that built partnerships with faith leaders and religious institutions towards conservation and climate results in the Amazon, East Africa, Himalayas, Mekong, and the United States. She received the prestigious Yale McCluskey Award in 2014 for her work and moved to the Yale School of Environmental Studies as an associate research scientist, where she researched, lectured and designed the prototype for what is now the Loka Initiative. Dekila is originally from the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India and is of Bhutia origin. https://www.ewscollective.org/mehradnazari daily 0.75 2023-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e5c5f4f988893104cf4ac2/3b4e2f93-f403-4fcd-a1d6-7551779678ea/MehradNazari.png Mehrad Nazari - Dr. Mehrad Nazari Dr. Mehrad Nazari is the author of the multiple award-winning book, Enlightened Negotiation: 8 Universal Laws to Connect, Create, and Prosper. Recently he was selected as one of 20 thought leaders around the globe by the International Leadership Association to contribute a chapter to: Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He is an executive advisor, corporate trainer, and speaker. Dr. Nazari is a passionate practitioner of applied spirituality. He believes in preserving the authenticity of the ancient wisdom practices and applying them to our daily lives in the 21st century. Mehrad holds a PhD in Leadership and Human Behavior and an MBA. For three decades Mehrad distinguished himself as a business leader in San Diego with several accolades to his credit, and also served for a decade as an adjunct professor of Business Negotiation. Mehrad has studied with spiritual masters including Walt Baptiste, Swami Veda Bharati of India, and Kyozan Joshu Roshi of Japan. He has been teaching mindfulness, meditation and yoga for over twenty-five years and served on the faculty of Esalen Institute 18 years. He coaches individuals as well as corporations which include Sony, Brookfield, eBay, Young President Organization Gold and National Conflict Resolution. Dr. Nazari has presented at the Int’l Conscious Capitalism Conference and served on the Board of Conscious Capitalism, San Diego.