Liana Sterling

Board of Trustees

Liana Sterling holds an MPA and an MPH from the School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and a BA from Bryn Mawr College. She worked for more than six years at the NYC Mayor's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) where she covered public health, social, and labor policy issues that affect New York City. In 2015 she joined Orleans Realty, LLC, where she works on commercial and residential real estate projects. 

Liana has been coming to Kripalu for nearly two decades. She has returned many times to take yoga, meditation and movement programs and in 2012 got certified to teach Kripalu yoga dance.  She is motivated by Kripalu’s effort to promote its evidence-based approach to organizations to achieve cultures of health and optimize human functioning at a more systemic level.