Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and nonprofit leader is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in.
She has 40-years experience working with mindfulness and other transformational tools and philosophies, and has taught around the world.
In 2014, she established Inner Strength, a non-profit organization, which has empowered more than 20,000 Philadelphia high school students with strategies helping them develop calm, curiosity, and care.
The Collaborative of Academic Social and Emotional Learning granted her program its coveted recommended status for its scientific and evidence-based curriculum, which combines mindfulness-based practices, critical thinking, and evolutionary systems theory.
Amy received a Philadelphia Social Innovator's Award for her program's work in violence reduction. She is a Cornell University College Scholar, cofounder of Emergence Education, which produces transformational books and programs for adults, and recipient of Nautilus, Publisher's Weekly Ben Franklin, and IPPY book awards for several of her six books.