Tavis Linsin is a poet, guitarist, teacher, and researcher. He is the Founding Director of Creative Inquiry Labs—a growing community engaged in creative practice and inquiry to support healing and transformational learning for individuals, organizations, and communities. Tavis was a Lecturer at Boston University and has taught at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Endicott College. He has provided education consulting support to local, national, and international nonprofit education organizations, including the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, Berklee College of Music, the Community Music Center of Boston, and Calmer Choice. He founded a music program in Hermosa Valley School in Costa Rica. He also served as a research fellow at the ASER Centre in India, where he conducted research to support children’s learning in rural government schools. He received a PhD in education from the University of Washington in Seattle, a master’s in arts in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music. He is a student of Zen Buddhism in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.