Dive Deeper

Cathy’s career spans the fields of media, wellness and education. Cathy worked in media in Los Angeles, New York and Milan, Italy. Credits include Cosmos with Carl Sagan, media consultant for Dungeons and Dragons, on-air correspondent for RAI Italia, Historical Consultant on the Cosmos series with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, “The Healing Has Begun” with Richard Gere and Jonathan Cott and several productions for PBS, HBO and network television. She also published articles in several magazines as well as for Bantam Books.

She received her Masters Degree in South Asian Studies from Columbia University and developed a curriculum on Asian Humanities for her thesis. She entered the classroom for five years and designed a science vs. religion interdisciplinary program, the Jedi Mind Training curriculum for K-5, Teen Mindfulness Workshops focused on anxiety, stress, depression, implicit bias, compassion, social skills and more, and a robust Professional Development Program for teachers and administration.

She was the Managing Director of MNDFL ED, the not-for-profit arm of MNDFL and was responsible for operations, fundraising, hiring teachers, outreach, as well as teaching in classrooms.

Cathy has been meditating for over 25 years and is a certified Mindfulness and Meditation Instructor from the Compassion Teacher Training at Nalanda Institute and The Path, The Lineage and Holistic Life Foundation Trauma Informed Trainings, the teacher training and advanced teacher training at MNDFL, as well as several courses with Mindful Schools. She is a public speaker, teaches meditation privately and in corporations (Amex, Sony, Simpson Thatcher, Moinian etc.) and at the MNDFL studios in New York.  She is on the Faculty of the Contemplative- Based Resilience Training at Garrison Institute, teaches meditation at Sanctuary for Families and Back to Humanity, organizes workshops (like the first NYC training for the Holistic Life Training), is a SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) facilitator and a DOE Vendor.