Linda Lantieri, MA has been in the field in education for 40 years in a variety of capacities: classroom teacher, assistant principal, director of a middle school in East Harlem, and faculty member at Hunter College in New York City. Currently she serves as the Director of The Inner Resilience Program whose mission is to cultivate the inner lives of students, teachers and schools by integrating social and emotional learning with contemplative practice. In 1985, she co-founded the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP), a researched based k-8 social and emotional learning program that has been implemented in over 400 schools. Linda is also one of the founding board members of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). 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@att.net
Websites:
www.innerresilience-tidescenter.org
www.lindalantieri.org
www.casel.org