Karen Blumenthal successfully navigated a 36 year career in public school education. She holds a Masters Degree in Physical Education and Health, a Diploma in School District Administration, and a Certification in Applied Positive Psychology.Throughout the course of her career she has always been focused on helping students to thrive and flourish. She has studied with Cory Muscara, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and Tara Brach . Karen has always had a huge interest in well being and life’s transitions. In November of 2017, 5 months into retirement, she ventured into Death Valley California and in the Native American tradition she completed a 10 day Vision Quest. She sat two 10 day Vipassana Courses in the SN Goenka tradition. She has completed all course work for certification in KORU so that she can continue her work to enhance the wellbeing of emerging adults. She is one of the teachers at the Long Island Center for Mindfulness, teaches monthly walking through nature meditation classes, runs KORU classes every few months, and speaks to colleges and public schools on mindfulness.

Katie Duffy Schumacher is the author of “Don’t Press Send: A Mindful Approach to Social Media, An Education In Cyber Civics.” She is the founder of the Don’t Press Send Campaign and developer of the internationally downloaded Don’t Press Send App. As a frequent lecturer, she has used her years as a teacher, her mindfulness training, and her on-the-job experience as a mother of three teens to engage her audience and spread her message of positive reform as it pertains to online communication. Katie’s mission is to empower children and adults to use technology with good intent by reinforcing the social and emotional skills of empathy, discipline, kindness, and mindfulness. Katie has appeared in numerous media outlets, such as WSJ Live TV, Beyond50Radio, Voice of America Radio, News 12, Fios 1, Newsday,  local papers, blogs, and family magazines. In addition, Katie is a contributor to the Thrive Global Journal, and has also contributed to The Hill, Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as various other journals and publications.