David Forbes, PhD, LMHC, is an Emeritus in the Urban Education Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches and writes on critical and integral approaches to mindfulness and neoliberalism in education and consults with New York City schools on developing social mindfulness programs. He studied psychology at The University of Chicago and the New School and received his doctorate in counselor education from U.C. Berkeley. David taught school counseling in the School of Education at Brooklyn College/CUNY for nineteen years. He wrote about his experience teaching and practicing mindfulness with a Brooklyn high school football team in his book, Boyz 2 Buddhas: Counseling Urban High School Male Athletes in the Zone (2004) and was a co-recipient of a Contemplative Program Development Fellowship from the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. His latest book is Mindfulness and its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation (Fernwood, 2019). He co-edited the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement (Springer, 2016) with Ron Purser, and contributed to his podcast, The Mindful Cranks. David is a member of the Mindfulness and Social Change Network based in the UK. He has written and co-written articles in their series on Open Democracy.net/ Transformation: Mindfulness and Social Change and is a member of the multidisciplinary academic network, Popular Psychology, Self-Help Culture, and the Happiness Industry.