Meet Our Team
Ella Crivello, Executive Director
“I stand on the sacrifices of the million women before me thinking ‘what can I do to make this mountain taller so the woman after me can see farther?’” - Rupi Kaur
Julia Hepfer, Lead Facilitator & Program Director
“Every day is a new opportunity to begin again” - Dalai Lama XIV
Jouvanna Brame, Marketing & Operations Intern
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” - Rumi
Erika Long, Facilitator, Treasurer
“If you can breathe through it, you can live through it.”
JaTorra Commodore, Facilitator
"Mindfulness is not about escaping life — it’s about arriving fully into it, with compassion, presence, and the courage to connect with ourselves and each other."
Lisa Sheehan, Facilitator, Mentor
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Melissa Harold, Facilitator
“We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives” - Tara Brach
Lucy Ball, Chair
"There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it" - Amanda Gorman
Chrissy Mahanna, LCSW, Vice Chair
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl
Maura Smotrich, Facilitator
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
Sara Baio, Facilitator
“One of life’s greatest joys is to grow with others and feel our connectedness on this Earth.”
 
                         
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
