Richard is a founding member and past President of MiEN. He retired in 2007 after teaching high school math for 37 years and is currently a mindfulness consultant, writer on mindfulness in education, and workshop leader for schools and universities. He is co-editor of Tuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning. Other writing of Richard's and information about his e-newsletter are available on his Minding Your Life website.

Katie is the former MiEN Board President, the Baldwin Program Director in the Center for Learning and Teaching at Bowdoin College, and faculty at the Teachings in Mindful Education (TiME) Institute in Maine. She teaches in-person and online courses on Mindful Education at Lesley University and Bowdoin College, and facilitates professional development for educators in mindful education and the science of learning. Her scholarship and professional development work focuses on the integration of contemplative pedagogy in educational contexts. She served as the Education Program Officer at the Mind & Life Institute in Hadley, MA developing a “Call to Care” program for educators and students, worked as a Curriculum Coordinator at a contemplative K-5 elementary school in Boulder, CO, taught high school Psychology in Charlotte, NC, trained as a facilitator for the Cultivating Emotional Balance project in Phuket, Thailand, and is a certified yoga instructor.

Robert works as both a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner (NP) in Boston, Mass where he serves a marginalized geriatric population, and a Mental Health Psychiatric NP in Lynn, Mass where he serves a large Khmer population in a Team setting. He specializes in trauma. In this capacity he teaches mindfulness practices to augment his practice of traditional Western pharmacotherapy. Rob is also a co-investigator in mindfulness studies at Dana Farber with cancer patients; Boston University School of Public Health with geriatric caregivers; and The Harvard Medical School Osher Institute in Complementary and Integrative Medicine focus on mindfulness in memory loss. He is the author of Tai chi and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in a Boston Public Middle School (J. Ped Healthcare, 2005).

Tim has been in public education since 1988, and taught art and humanities at Highview Middle School in Minnesota. After training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), he began sharing mindfulness with teachers and students in his district. In addition, he has presented at the Minnesota Middle School Association conference, the Mindfulness in Education Network conference, as well as offering mindfulness for adults through NAMI Minnesota.

Elli Weisbaum has worked internationally facilitating mindfulness workshops and retreats within the sectors of education, healthcare and business. She is an instructor for the Applied Mindfulness and Meditation Certificate Program at the University of Toronto in the School of Continuing Studies. She holds a masters degree focused on bringing mindfulness into education, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Medicine, with a focus on applying mindfulness to physician wellbeing. She spent a year as the international program coordinator for Wake Up Schools, a global initiative to cultivate mindfulness in education, established by her root teacher Nobel Peace Prize nominee, scholar and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She is a certified teacher in the Search Inside Yourself Program, which was developed at Google Headquarters and integrates mindfulness, emotional intelligence and neuroscience. She is honoured to be a member of the Mindfulness Project Team at The Hospital for Sick Children, which acts as a hub for mindfulness initiatives across the hospital. Elli’s novel background in both academic research and mindfulness practice provides a distinct approach to her ongoing aspiration to cultivate a more healthy and compassionate society.  

Chris is a psychologist and educational consultant specializing in mindfulness with adolescents and young adults. He has been practicing meditation for over 15 years, leading workshops and trainings locally and internationally on the topic of mindfulness with young people. He teaches at Harvard Medical School and Lesley University. Chris also serves on the board of directors at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Child’s Mind (2010), Growing Up Mindful (2016) and other books on mindfulness with children, teens and families.