Judith Simmer-Brown, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Contemplative and Religious Studies Emerita at Naropa University, where she has taught for over 47 years. Simmer-Brown is the founder of Naropa’s Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education (CACE) and is a compassion trainer and researcher for the Compassion Initiative. She has taught Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, interreligious dialogue, Buddhist chaplaincy, and contemplative education subjects. She is a Team Leader for Fetzer Institute’s Sacred Story project and is a Fellow for the Mind & Life Institute. She is author of Dakini’s Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism (Shambhala) and editor, with Fran Grace, of Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative Pedagogy for Religious Studies (SUNY). She serves as co-editor, with Hal Roth, of a Contemplative Studies book series for SUNY Press, and is Guest Co-editor of a Special Issue on Compassion and Skillful Means for Mindfulness Journal (Springer). She and her husband Richard have two children, four grandchildren, and two great-grandsons.