Juliet Trail, PhD is Founder and Director of Courageous Compassion Connection, a non-profit founded in 2020 dedicated to bringing contemplative practices and approaches to diverse groups and individuals in the service of resilience, wholeness, healing, and compassion for self, fellow humans, nature, and all other beings. She builds upon more than fifteen years of experience in higher education at the University of Virginia as well as doctoral studies focusing on Network Enablers, defined as individuals with a strongly empowering and positive impact on others around them in their professional networks. She was co-chair in organizing the 2020 Contemplative Practices for Higher Education Conference, as well as serving on the planning committees for the conferences in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. She is also a poet and musician who explores the intersections of creativity and contemplation.