Francesca Maximé

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Francesca Maximé graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English Literature and has written two books. Rooted: A Verse Memoir was published by NYQ Books in 2012 and ReRouted: Verse for the Human Animal was published in 2013. She is the 2019 recipient of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Outstanding Student Advocacy & Service Award, as well as the 2019 first prize winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. As the host of the #Rerooted Podcast on the Be Here Now Network , Maximé interviews renowned neuroscientists, trauma specialists, activists, psychotherapists, and Buddhist and mindfulness meditation teachers around the issues of systemic racism and oppression, gender identity, sexual orientation, trauma, mindfulness, and sustainable wellbeing.

Maximé's career began in working in Fortune 500 companies in Sales and Marketing, traveling around the country addressing Bank Presidents, CEO’s, sales and marketing teams, and more. As a TV news personality, Maximé appeared on-air as a news anchor and correspondent for local, national, network and international television stations including PBS NewsHour, Bloomberg, NY1, WPIX, NBC and FOX. She interviewed countless celebrities and politicians alike (Mike Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer, Matt Damon, Blake Lively, Zoe Saldana) while reporting ‘live on scene’ from some of the most groundbreaking and transformative domestic and international stories of our time, including 9/11 and Occupy Wall Street. She also got a chance to pilot an F-16 with the Air Force Thunderbirds and pull 9 G’s, as well as fly with the Blue Angels, in addition to reporting from an aircraft carrier for Fleet Week. Experiences!

She has been mentored in mindfulness meditation practices by clinical psychologist and Insight Meditation Society co-founder and Spirit Rock Meditation Center founder Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. and has also been a mindfulness student of clinical psychologist and Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. founder Tara Brach, Ph.D. Francesca has sat in silent retreat cumulatively for several months.