Linda Lantieri, MA is a Fulbright Scholar, keynote speaker, and internationally known expert in social and emotional learning and conflict resolution. Currently she serves as the Director of The Inner Resilience Program which equips school personnel with the skills and strategies to strengthen their inner lives in order to model these skills for the young people in their care. In 1985, she co-founded the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) which is now one of the largest and longest running evidenced-based school (K-8) programs in social and emotional learning in United States. Linda is also one of the founding board members of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

She has 40 years of experience in education as a former teacher and director of a middle school in East Harlem, and faculty member at Hunter College in New York City. She is the coauthor of Waging Peace in Our Schools (Beacon Press, 1996) editor of Schools with Spirit: Nurturing the Inner Lives of Children and Teachers (Beacon Press, 2001), and author of Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children (Sounds True, 2008).

Linda Lantieri
Director of The Inner Resilience Program and Board Member of Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
40 Exchange Place, Suite 1111
New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 509-0022, ext. 226, Fax: (212) 509-1095
E-mail: llantieri@worldnet.att.net
Websites:
www.innerresilience-tidescenter.org
www.lindalantieri.org
www.casel.org