Khayree Bey (he/him), BBSc, M.Ed. 2021 Colonial School District Teacher of the Year, 2020 Lt. Governor’s Challenge Wellness Leadership Award, 2019 SHAPE Delaware’s Health Teacher of the Year and serves on Delaware’s Professional Standards Board. Khayree currently co-facilitates the Delaware COSEM Chapter and teaches a MBSR Health class to 6th, 7th 8th graders at McCullough Middle School. He implements an equity-based, trauma/poverty-informed, culturally responsive approach to educating students, community, and Delaware educators in the art of MBSEL, Kemetic yoga (200YTT), and other self-care practices. He also serves on numerous district and state Anti-Racism, DEI, and SEL committees. 

Athea Davis is the Director of Social Emotional Learning at Étoile Academy Charter School, a mindfulness educator, creator + host of the podcast, Mindful Living with Athea Davis, and author of Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Daily Meditations for Youth, Parents, and Families. Join her conversations about the intersections of philosophy, mindfulness, neuroscience, SEL, psychology, and education. She holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Policy and Leadership, is a Texas Certified Educator, an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500), and a Children’s Registered Yoga Teacher.

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www.solsenseyoga.com

Matthew Dewar, Ed.D., is a COSEM Past President, a professional educator, MBSEL specialist, high school well-being coordinator, speaker, and author researching and applying the science of mindfulness and emotion regulation. For fifteen years, he explored the impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and emotion regulation protocols on learning, professional development, and leadership in schools. More recently, he has focused on the impact of breathing behavior analysis and heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback on emotion regulation and elite performance.

Dr. Dewar is also the founder of Matt Dewar, LLC, and the creator of the Stress Better™ Framework, which he has shared with collegiate and professional athletes, Fortune 500 executives, colleges and universities, first responders and military personnel. Dr. Dewar authored Education and Well-Being: An Ontological Inquiry and The Mindful Breathing Workbook for Teens: Simple Practices to Help You Manage Stress and Feel Better Nows and has been featured on TEDx, NPR, Thrive Global, the National Wellness Institute, and many podcasts.

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www.mattdewar.com

Lindsey Frank, M.Ed., is our 2022-2025 COSEM President. She is a changemaker who discovers creative and accessible ways to share the gift of mindfulness. Lindsey has infused mindfulness-based SEL into classrooms and homes through her children’s books and coaching. She supports education professionals to develop courageous and confident heart-centered lives within and beyond the classroom through her company, The Butterfly Within, LLC. She has been in education for over 13 years teaching children of all ages and supporting educators through roles ranging from a districtwide climate & SEL coach, special educator, teacher, and interventionist. Her master’s degree is in Educational Leadership and has earned her ELL Endorsement. She is a certified SEL facilitator and yoga instructor through Breathe for Change, a certified children’s yoga teacher, has learned techniques through Mindful Schools, earned a trauma-informed yoga specialty, is a certified mindfulness and meditation teacher, is earning her integrative transformational coaching accreditation, and continues her self-development journey every moment. 

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www.TheButterflyWithin.Me

Gina G. Harris (she/her), MBA, MAT, is an educator, restorative justice practices facilitator and trainer, and the founder of the Unity Dialogues, a circle process where students and adults learn from each other and grow from authentic, open dialogue about race and unity development. She is a Culture and Climate Coach in the Oak Park and Ridge Forest School District in IL. Gina chairs the Illinois Education Association’s Human and Civil Rights Committee, where she has implemented statewide measures to ensure and promote diverse involvement of educators in leadership. She is also a member of the National Education Association's board of directors, where she co-created and leads the training for the board on institutionalized racism, the school-to-prison pipeline, and implicit bias.

Tovi Scruggs-Hussein is a leader of leaders and award-winning urban educator with almost 30 years of leadership and transformation experience. She is internationally recognized for her signature approach of moving from Leadership Do-ing to Leadership BE-ing and Emotionally Intelligent Equity & Inclusion. Tovi has been recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of the Powerful Women Leaders of 2021 who are igniting the world with courage and wisdom. She walks her talk of courageous leadership being cultivated by meditation, resilience, and self-mastery, having had a daily meditation practice for almost 30 years, and also sitting four week-long silent retreats. Tovi is on a mission to heal our leaders and organizations through SELf-Transformation for School & Systemic Transformation. She is the co-founder of ACSA’s Equity Leaders Academy, co-founding professor of Trauma-Responsive Leadership with an Equity Lens, and served as the national president for Coalition of Schools Educating Mindfully. Tovi is a certified coach and has been personally trained by Brené Brown as a Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator to train others in courageous leadership with a lens of inclusion and belonging. Yet, the very best leadership training she ever received has been the 17 years she spent as a high school principal. Tovi cultivates conscious, connected, and courageous leaders world-wide. 

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www.ticiess.com