Yoga Alliance
Kay Sturm, Ed.D, currently serves as a National Faculty and Curriculum Developer at PBLWorks and an Education Consultant for The Umi Project, focusing on intentional design and deeper learning education. With extensive experience in education, Sturm has held various roles, including Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California and Student Experiences Coordinator at SEEQS Public Charter School. As a Special Education Department Head at Waianae High School, Sturm has been instrumental in advising teachers and ensuring compliance with IDEA. Sturm’s background includes teaching positions in special education, project-based learning, and inclusion, as well as internships at the U.S. Department of State and Harvard Medical School. Sturm holds an Ed.D in Education Leadership from the University of Southern California, a Master's in Special Education from Chaminade University, and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Northeastern University.
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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.