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Juliet Trail is the Managing Director of the UVA Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC). In this role, she helps to manage the projects and initiatives of the center, which constitute a wide variety of efforts that span the 11 schools of UVA and involve research, learning and practice. She has a particular focus on faculty engagement programs that help to connect faculty and classrooms with contemplative and mindfulness pedagogies, and she teaches the class “Mindfulness & Compassion: Living Fully Personally & Professionally” each spring semester. Juliet holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the UVA Curry School of Education. She also holds an M.A. in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy from New Mexico State University (2002). She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Music (Piano Performance) from Guilford College (1996). Music is still an active passion of her life and she is lead singer of Charlottesville band Phoenix Noir, and also has a duo band called U.S. with her husband, Jeremy Johnson.Juliet als