Valerie Jeremijenko, PhD, MFA
Dr. Valerie Jeremijenko has been the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at VCUArts in Qatar for over fifteen years. She is also the founder, owner and director of the successful Doha-based Yama Yoga Studios, the director of all their teacher training programs and a writer.
Her wide ranging interests include intercultural communication, kinesiology, body studies, community building, yoga, breath work. She is the editor of 'How We Live our Yoga' (Beacon, 2001) a literary collection of essays and has studied yoga world-wide during her 30 years of practice. Her MFA and PhD are both in Creative Writing (Fiction.)