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Elizabeth J. Coleman is an attorney and poet and has studied and taught mindfulness for many years. Elizabeth is also a classical guitarist, who performs weekly at a New York hospital. Her new poetry chapbook Mega-Galaxies was the winner of the 2025 Adrift Chapbook Prize and will be published in 2026. She is the editor of Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), an international eco poetry anthology, featuring a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and an activist guide from the Union of Concerned Scientists. The author of several poetry collections, Elizabeth is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. More information about Elizabeth can be found at www.elizabethjcoleman.com.
Elizabeth Emens is the Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law and the Director of the Mindfulness Program at Columbia Law School. She writes and teaches on disability law, family law, anti-discrimination law, contracts law, and law and sexuality. She clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and she earned her JD and BA from Yale and her PhD from King's College, Cambridge. Her teacher training in mindfulness has been through the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, the Mindful Schools program, and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.
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