Brooke D. Lavelle, PhD is the co-founder and president of the Courage of Care Coalition, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Sustainable Compassion Training (SCT) programs and support to individuals and communities in education, health care, and other areas of social service. She is also the senior education consultant to Mind & Life's Ethics, Education, and Human Development Initiative and a co-developer of the Call to Care program for teachers and students.
Dr. Lavelle holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Emory University. Her academic work focuses on the diversity of contemplative models for cultivating compassion and mindfulness, as well as the cultural contexts that shape the transmission, reception, and secularization of Buddhist contemplative practices in America. Dr. Lavelle serves on the Board of the Foundation for Active Compassion and now resides in the Bay Area where she works as an education consultant at the Greater Good Science Center (GGSC) at UC Berkeley.