Rosemary Lombard-Mental health & S0c.-emot. dev. award

Rosemary Lombard, Ed.M, MBA, Executive Director at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, (CMBM), is an innovator in incubating community and institutional partnerships focused on resilience building, population-wide trauma relief, and improving education systems. Over the last 20 years, Rosemary has guided strategic growth and established programs for international nonprofits and mission-based organizations.

Equal parts entrepreneurial and collaborative, Rosemary brings a background in finance and international nonprofit development to her work guiding strategic growth at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, which is recognized as the world-wide leader in trauma relief. CMBM teaches self-care, self-awareness and group support to health professionals, to educators, to first responders, to children, in conflict zones and disaster areas, overseas as well as here in the U.S.

As Executive Director, Rosemary runs the daily operations at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM). Her gift for incubating engagement and cross-cultural understanding has led CMBM to establish expansive public private partnerships. Under her leadership CMBM has co-created healing programs with native communities in the United States facing suicide epidemics; as well as those communities that have experienced natural and climate-related disasters in Haiti, Louisiana, Houston, Northern California, and Puerto Rico. Rosemary has worked with large systems supporting CMBM’s work to create model programs with the U.S. Veterans Administration; large school districts devastated by mass shootings; and with rural communities ravaged by the opioid epidemic. During Rosemary’s tenure at CMBM there is also has a track record of overseas engagement in over a dozen countries including nations in the Balkans and the Middle East, and in Haiti, South Sudan, and Kyrgyzstan.

When she is not building community resilience programs, Rosemary enjoys life’s adventures with her three young children, and teaches yoga. She holds a BS from NYU, an Ed.M in International Education Policy from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, an MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and a 500 hour Yoga Training Certification.