Brooke Lavalle

Brooke is the Co-Founder and President of Courage of Care. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Cognitive Science from Emory University, an M.A. in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Columbia University and a B.A. in Religion and Psychology from Barnard College.

Brooke was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Germany, where she co-developed a climate justice program for ecological sustainability researchers.

She served as a lecturer at San Francisco State University where she taught a contemplative-based course on compassion and social justice. She was a consultant to Teacher’s College, Columbia University’s new initiative on Spirituality and Education and was the Senior Education Consultant to Mind & Life’s Ethics, Education, and Human Development Initiative.

Brooke served on the core curriculum team for the Student Flourishing Initiative, a collaboration between the Universities of Virginia, Wisconsin-Madison and Penn State, and previously co-led the Summer Institute for Educators at the Greater Good Science Center. Brooke recently completed a book manuscript on courage and spiritual activism and is co-writing a book on compassion and equity in education with a collaborative she founded in Oakland.