A dedicated practitioner of Vipassana meditation since 2005, Amy Smith teaches mindfulness in Washington DC with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and served on the IMCW board for five years. Before moving to DC, Amy served as operations director of InsightLA, a mindfulness center in Santa Monica, CA. She is a graduate of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s mindfulness meditation teacher training program and, in addition to Jack and Tara, counts Jonathan Foust and Trudy Goodman as guiding teachers. Amy is also the Deputy Director on the Forest Team at World Wildlife Fund (WWF) where she works to promote forest protection and sustainable use.