Yoga Alliance
Katie Fernandes is an experienced educational professional currently serving as the Assistant Dean and Director of Academic Coaching & Retention Programs at Providence College since June 2019. Additionally, Katie coordinates the Friar Foundations Program, teaches courses, and worked as the Assistant Director for Student Success and Retention, as well as an Academic Skills Specialist at the same institution. Alongside an enduring role as a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance since June 2018, Katie has also contributed to community engagement as the Community Outreach Coordinator for Rev'd Indoor Cycling from January 2022 to January 2024. Prior experience includes serving as the Associate Director and Assistant Director of the ARCH Learning Community at Dean College between August 2015 and June 2019. Katie holds a Master of Education in Student Personnel Administration in Higher Education from Springfield College and both a Bachelor of Arts and an Associate of Arts from Dean College in Liberal Arts and Sociology.
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Yoga Alliance
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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.