Wynne Kinder, BA Ed
Wynne was a classroom teacher for 17 years and from this she began creating and conducting mindful awareness-based Wellness Works in Schools™ in 2004. As a partner in Kinder Associates LLC, she is their lead instructor, curriculum writer, and teacher trainer. Wynne's work focuses on assessing/addressing student needs, building relationships, guiding behavior and teaching attention, social engagement, emotional regulation and executive function skills. Her training includes: Mindful Yoga, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, CASEL, Trauma-Informed Somatic Practices and Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Institute. Most recently she helped develop and is the voice for mindful, digital Brain Breaks (FLOW) on GoNoodle.com and is pursuing a MA in Education through Eastern Mennonite University (emphasis: working with at-risk populations).
David Levy
David is a professor in the University of Washington Information School. A computer scientist by training, he has worked to understand contemporary challenges such as information overload and the acceleration of everyday life as the loss of “contemplative balance.” He is the author of Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age (Arcade, 2001) and is currently working on a book with the working title “No Time to Think.”
University of WashingtonMindful Tech
Irene McHenry
Irene is a psychologist, school consultant, author/editor of numerous publications including the 2009 Tuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning. She consults with organizations nationwide providing professional development and teaching mindfulness for administrators, faculty, trustees and aspiring leaders. Irene is a founder of several schools and initiated the founding of the Friends Council’s SPARC program – Spirited Practice and Renewed Courage, based on Parker Palmer’s teacher formation principles. She is the Executive Director of the Friends Council on Education and Board President for the Council for American Private Education.
Friends Council on EducationTuning In: Mindfulness in Teaching and Learning
Emily Morrison
Former MiEN Secretary
Emily is a former high school English teacher. Emily left the classroom for the yoga studio in 2010 and quickly found a way to bring the two together. After attending a Mindfulness in Education conference and training at the Omega Institute, bringing mindfulness into schools became her passion. She is currently working as the mindfulness and yoga teacher at Mountaintop Montessori (K-8) for both faculty and student body, and she leads mindfulness and yoga workshops, summer camps, and enrichment activities for children throughout the Charlottesville, Virginia area. Emily is also a member of the Mindfulness steering committee at the University of Virginia, a cross-disciplinary group engaged in dialogue about encouraging mindful teaching and learning at the university level. She is currently writing a curriculum for using mindfulness to inspire creativity in children.
Amy Saltzman, MD
Amy is a holistic physician, mindfulness teacher, wife and mother. She has been teaching mindfulness for over 14 years. She is the founder and director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education. Her passion supporting children and adults in discovering the Still Quiet Place within. She has two research studies through the Stanford Department of Psychology: evaluating the benefits of teaching mindfulness to child-parent pairs and to children in elementary school. Dr. Saltzman offers lectures and courses for schools, parenting organizations, and education and medical conferences. She also provides individual mindfulness instruction and holistic medical care to children and adults.
Still Quiet Place
Meena Srinivasan, MA, NBCT
Meena is an international educator passionate about bringing mindfulness into education and was involved in the creation of Thich Nhat Hanh’s, Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children. She has experience teaching grades 6-12 in humanities, health and special needs, and has taught at some of the world’s leading International and Independent Schools in Brazil, India and California. Meena currently teaches 6th grade at Park Day School in Oakland, California where she integrates mindfulness into her Humanities curriculum.
Teach, Breathe, Learn
Richard Brady
MiEN founder

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.

Minding Your Life
Kathryn Brynes, Ph.D.
former MiEN president

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.

Bowdoin Article
Robert Wall
former MiEN treasurer

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 Iverson

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.

Elie Weisbaum

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.  

Christopher Willard, Psy. D.
former MiEN president

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.