Prior to being a mindfulness and educational consultant, April was a teacher at a resilient middle school in the South Bronx. She then created Ahimsa MY LLC, focusing on bringing mindfulness and yoga to schools and educational organizations as a means to cultivate present teachers and self-empowered students. April was part of the inaugural cohort at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University where she received her Master’s Degree in Spirituality and Mindfulness in 2016. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Fordham University, and BS in International Relations, Community Development and Educational Studies with a focus on Anti-Racist education from Mount Holyoke College. April hopes that the practices of mindfulness can reconnect teachers and young people back to their inner resources of breath and body to navigate external uncertainties. April has partnered with schools across the country as well as numerous service organizations. She is a teacher with the Lineage Project, an organization that teaches trauma-informed mindfulness to incarcerated-adjacent young people and staff who support them. She also was a program facilitator with Mindful Schools, an international mindfulness organization supporting integrating mindfulness into school communities. April’s greatest joy is being a foster mother.