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Lisa Podemski is an accomplished attorney specializing in children's rights, currently serving as an Attorney for the Child in the Juvenile Rights Practice at The Legal Aid Society of NYC since March 2008. In this role, Lisa represents children and youth in litigation concerning abuse and neglect cases, with a focus on various related matters including custody and education issues. Additionally, Lisa is a certified Yoga Instructor (RYT 500) with Yoga Alliance since January 2019. Prior legal experience includes positions at Kaye Scholer LLP and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, where Lisa worked on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and structured finance. Educational credentials include a Doctor of Law (J.D.) from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College. Further professional development includes yoga teacher training and ongoing studies to become a Holistic Health Coach.
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Yoga Alliance is the leading nonprofit association representing the yoga community worldwide. Our work is a direct reflection of yoga professionals’ needs and feedback, and supports and fosters the high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable teaching yoga everywhere. We do this through: • Celebrating and uplifting the many diverse yoga styles, traditions, and lineages; • Upholding the worldwide growth of yoga through education and community, including Digital Event programming; • Encouraging safe yoga instruction via quantitative Standards and a member-wide Ethical Commitment, which includes an enhanced Code of Conduct, Scope of Practice, and responsibility to equity in yoga; • Advocating for self-regulation in the yoga industry, our community's protection from unfair or unnecessarily burdensome patents, taxation, or government regulation; and universal access to high quality, safe, accessible, and equitable yoga practices; • Serving the member community by providing tools for professional growth and development, exclusive benefits, and timely resources and information including those on COVID-19 and Social Justice; • Fostering accountability within our standards, membership, and internal team; and • Providing yoga schools and yoga teachers with effective business practices to help achieve success.