PROFILE

Laura Bean, M.F.A., executive director of Mindful Literacy, has 30 years of teaching and meditation experience and consults with school communities to implement mindfulness and creative writing programs. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and served as developmental editor for her principal meditation teacher Doug Duncan’s book’s book Dharma If You Dare, which was published in 2013. She presented a mindful writing workshop at Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth Conference in San Diego in 2016.