Alison Laichter is a meditation teacher, urban planner, community organizer, and co-founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Meditation Center (JMC). She is a recipient of the Joshua Venture Group Dual Investment Program, a 2-year, $100k fellowship for Jewish social entrepreneurs, and was named one of the 2010 Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36: Visionaries for a New Era.”

She studied Civil Engineering at The Cooper Union and Urban Planning at Columbia University, worked for the United Nations Development Programme, and recently worked as a Community Planner to re-imagine the entire east side of Manhattan for pedestrian and bicyclist safety.

Alison has been meditating since she was 15, including extensively in the Himalayan and Santa Cruz mountains. She has taught classes and retreats for children and adults throughout the United States and Israel, including retreatants at Elat Chayyim/Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, students and professors at Yale University, doctors at Bellevue Hospital, children in NYC public schools and participants of all backgrounds at the JMC.

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