Judi Cohen

Judi Cohen (she/her) is an attorney, law professor, 35-year student of mindfulness and yoga, and elder. She has taught mindfulness to lawyers and law students for nearly three decades. Currently, she teaches Mindfulness for the Legal Mind at Berkeley Law, to support students’ personal wellbeing and offer them tools to create a more just, equitable society and a more harmonious relationship with the planet. Judi is also the founder of Warrior One, which has been offering programs for legal professionals that integrate traditional mindfulness, contemplative neuroscience, and the psychology of the legal mind, and producing the weekly Wake Up Call podcast and biennial Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training, since 2011.

A founding board member and past co-president of the Mindfulness in Law Society (MILS), Judi currently serves as co-chair of the MILS Teachers Collective and as a member of its Faculty Circle. She is also a former facilitant for the Law and Social Change Jam and a current facilitant for the Elder Jam. Judi lives on the ancestral lands of the Pomo and Coast Miwok tribes, and on the lands of the Washoe tribe, with her partner, a physician and yoga teacher, and their mini-Bernedoodle, Oliver.