Stacy Sims is a mind-body educator, wellness activist and author. She is the executive director and founder of The Well, a Cincinnati-based national nonprofit working at the intersection of arts and wellness. Its signature program, Mindful Music Moments, is an innovative school program combining mindfulness and music, serving more than 100,000 students nationally with mindful prompts and world-class music every day of the school year.

Sims is also a novelist (Swimming Naked, Viking, 2014), playwright (As White As O, The Vivian Girls) and author of two illustrated children’s books on mindfulness and movement with Blue Manatee Press.