Dr. Allyson Pimentel is a psychologist and long-time student and teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition, working at the intersection of mindfulness, mental health, and social justice. Allyson holds a BA from Brown University and a doctorate from Harvard University. She is the Co-Director of Mindful USC at the University of Southern California and also teaches at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and at InsightLA. Her writings on mindfulness have appeared in Lion’s Roar magazine and elsewhere. Allyson loves sharing mindfulness as a pathway for individual and collective healing, wisdom, and freedom.