Clare’s journey to meditation unfolded through years of searching for the roots of lasting change in society. She pursued this question through many paths—from political organizing to strategy consulting, from international development to human centered design—and came to understand that meaningful transformation often begins with our relationship to ourselves.

In Brooklyn, during the strange silence of 2020, meditation found Clare. What began with apps and uncertain moments of sitting gradually opened into a practice that transformed her sense of what’s possible—in individual experience, in human connection, in the tender space between doing and being. She began to see how presence creates its own kind of change, flowing outward in widening circles from self to world.

This opening to practice led Clare deeper into both traditional wisdom and contemporary applications. In recent years she has enjoyed Lama Tsultrim Allione’s Feeding Your Demons Level I, residential retreats with Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, been trained as a Leadership & Personal Development Coach through Brown University and mindfulness-based programming through SIYLI, and served 18 months on the board of Boundless Freedom Project, where they share mindfulness and compassion practices with people impacted by incarceration.