Patricia "Tish" Jennings, a former teacher and school leader, is an associate professor of education at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and an internationally recognized leader in the areas of social-emotional learning, teacher stress, and mindfulness. She led the teams that developed and studied the CARE program and is the author of Mindfulness for Teachers (2015) and The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom (2018, both from Norton).