Tavis Linsin, founding director of Creative Inquiry Labs, is an educator, education researcher, poet, and guitarist. He has served as a faculty member in education at Boston University and Endicott College where he mentored undergraduate and graduate students in education and the arts. Prior to higher education, Linsin taught in K-12 and community settings. His research focuses on supporting creative and mindful learning, and he is particularly interested in supporting the creative self-expression of low-income or otherwise marginalized learners. He received his PhD in education—with a focus in creativity and mixed methods research—from the University of Washington in Seattle. Linsin also holds a master’s degree in arts in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a bachelor of music degree from Berklee College of Music. He is a meditation practitioner in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. His full CV can be found here.