Dr. Vernice Solimar was founder and chair of the Integral Psychology M.A. program, and former chair of Consciousness and Transformative Studies at John F. Kennedy University, (JFKU). With Dr. Monica Sharma, former Director of Leadership Training for Developing Countries at the United Nations, Vernice founded and directed the Leadership for Personal and Social Transformation certificate at JFKU. Vernice is a Founding Member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute and collaborated with Don Beck in teaching Spiral Dynamics at JFKU. She has taught courses on World Religions, Evolutionary Spiritualty and Transpersonal and Integral Psychology, given presentations in El Salvador, Ecuador and Peru and facilitated programs in Taiwan, Istanbul, Puerto Rico and Uganda among others.