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Our Staff & Volunteers

Dina Scalone-Romero, Executive Director, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MBA, mother, professor, wife, yoga instructor. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Metropolitan College's Audrey Cohen School of Human Services and has worked with victims and perpetrators of crime for the past 10 years.

Jeramy Zimmerman, Program Manager, came to the Lineage Project as a volunteer in 2005, and has enjoyed teaching (and learning) at various Lineage sites since then. In 2007, she became the Program Manager and she remains excited and inspired by her role. Jeramy is certified through OM Yoga Center in NYC. As a dancer and choreographer, Jeramy has worked with at-risk youth since 1993 and she sees her work with Lineage as a path fusing her prior work with her yoga practice.

Stan Grier, Senior Teacher - A certified yoga therapist, Qigong and meditation teacher for 13 years, and creator of Qi-Yoga. He has worked with a broad spectrum of individuals from the ages of 3 - 60+. He is the Co-Founder of Calming Your World Productions a service organization facilitating wellness retreats for corporations and individuals. Stan is a staff member of the Bent on Learning (yoga and meditation in grades Pre-K – 12 in NYC Public Schools) and Manhattan Plaza Health Club. Currently he is a student of the Dedicated Practice Course with New York Insight Meditation Society and pursing an Advanced degree with the Clayton School of Natural Health.

Rebecca Bateman started practicing yoga in her teens and after ten years, she decided to become a teacher. She loves yoga for its ability to open her up to change and to foster an over-all sense of well-being. Along with Yoga she practices Reiki and finds the two to be great complements. She teaches personalized yoga for individuals and small groups in Brooklyn and Manhattan and she has a website www.YogaForYouNYC.com, with testimonials and more information on her teaching style.

Leslie Booker received her 200 hour yoga teacher training and her pre-natal yoga teacher training in 2007. She immediately began working with pregnant and parenting teen girls through the Liberty Partnership Program. Her work with at-risk populations continued in 2008 when she started working with incarcerated youth through the Lineage Project. In the spring of 2008 she assisted in a nurturing yoga retreat at Kripalu in Lenox, Massachusetts and will be assisting the Lineage Project in their teacher training at Omega in Rhinebeck, New York in the Fall. She is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association as well as the International Association of Black Yoga Teachers. Leslie is also a 2006 graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and practices Foot Reflexology in New York City. You can read more about her work with at-risk youth at yogajournal.com.

Amber Campion is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Yoga Instructor, Private Chef, and Youth Educator. She is very involved with youth empowerment, using movement and music as her tools. She developed a body awareness program (BAMM! Body Awareness through Movement & Music) that is implemented into several all girl schools around Manhattan and Brooklyn. Amber is also an ever evolving musician, capoerista, and aspiring juggler.

Fran Clemente is principal of Newmark High School in Carteret, NJ, an out of district high school for students with social and emotional issues. She is also a Certified Physical education teacher and ISHTA yoga instructor Summer Deaver is an artist of many means. She is constantly exploring new ways to communicate ideas of the universal thread. After 9/11, she felt an urgency to commit to the practice of helping others and soon after completed her training in Prana Yoga with Jeff Migdow and Robyn Ross, whom she continues to assist in their teacher trainings. She is passionate about working with youth and now leads workshops for teachers who wish to reach kids with yoga and awareness. She has worked with at-risk youth, incarcerated youth as well as kids with healthy and nurturing lifestyles.

Audrey Heffernan has been studying and practicing many different types of yoga for the past 10 years. Dedicated to the study of Anusara Yoga and meditation for the past three years, she has participated in a number of workshops and is completing her 200-hour level teacher training at the World Yoga Center. In addition, she completed a 300-hour Vajra teacher training course last year with Jill Satterfield. Audrey has studied Tantric philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism and integrates teachings and alignment principles in fun-filled classes that emphasize compassion and self-acceptance.

Andrea King is a certified Prana Yoga instructor and has been teaching classes for the past three years at the Office for Family and Children Services (OFCS) in Brooklyn, NY through the Linage Project. She received her certification at the New York Open Center of Holistic Learning & World Culture in June 2006. Prior to receiving her certification, Andrea volunteered for several years at the New York Open Center and participated in many yoga-related workshops to enhance her own practice and teaching skills, such as the Julia Cameron workshops " The Artist Way" and ongoing educational courses through the Lineage Project.

Stephan W. Kolbert is an educator and movement enthusiast who brings joyous life energy, flexibility and calm to his classes as well as his personal practice. His yoga practice grew out his previous studies in Lama Kung Fu, Tai Chi, meditation, weight lifting and running. He is a Certified Yoga Teacher with over 500hours of training. Stephan has spent two decades working with diverse populations: from the homeless and incarcerated to those owning multiple dwellings – aged 4 to 84. He has led travel programs for youth, utilized intensive retreats with high and low ropes courses, facilitated diversity-training seminars, created curriculum and tutored students with dyslexia, ADD, ADHD and unidentified learning challenges. He has worked with NY Youth-At-Risk, the NYC Outward Bound Center, the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference program, Common Cents NY, The Reciprocity Foundation and The Calhoun School (where he presently teaches Kindergarten). He has traveled on six continents and performed Hamlet in Prague Castle. Stephan holds an MA in Counseling and Guidance from NYU and a BS from Ithaca College in a combined studies program of Speech Communications and Business Marketing.

Joshua Mitsunen Moses, MA, is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has an MA from Cornell University and is currently a Ruth L. Kirchstein Fellow with the National Institute of Mental Health. He has worked on research projects funded by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fogarty Foundation and the Kellogg Foundation. For the past three years he has been studying the role of religious and spiritual care in times of disaster. He has been practicing Buddhism since he was a teen and is currently a student of Roshi Enkyo O’Hara at the Village Zendo. His interests include the anthropology of health and illness, the history of mind/body medicine, health and inequality and culture and mental health. He likes to play the accordion and spend time in the mountains.