Noa Jones was the founder and Executive Director of Middle Way Education (2017-2024) and was the Founding Chair of the Middle Way School of the Hudson Valley, which she was asked to create as a laboratory to develop a new model of Buddhist education for modern learning environment. She taught at MWS for 6 years and received a masters degree from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Previously, she worked for Khyentse Foundation for 17 years.