Yael Shy is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is also the Senior Director of the NYU Global Spiritual Life Center, Founder and Director of MindfulNYU, and Director of the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership. She is the author of the book, What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, November 2017) as well as the co-author and instructor of the popular meditation course for college students, "Coming Home to Yourself." Yael is an alum of NYU CAS and Northeastern University School of Law. She has been published in the Sports Lawyers Journal, The NYU Review of Law and Social Change (with Linda G. Mills and Mary Helen Maley), the Clinical Social Work Journal (with Linda G. Mills), the Journal of Inter-religious Studies (with Yehuda Sarna) and elsewhere.