A long-time meditator in the Vedanta tradition, Molly is also a certified Primordial Sound Meditation teacher.

In 2011, Molly offered a groundbreaking new course, Consciousness, Creativity, and Identity. Rooted in the academic literature of identity studies, Beauregard’s class was unique in offering students the chance to experience meditation first-hand. Alongside a traditional and rigorous syllabus, her course also integrated silence and reflection, providing students not only with an intellectual gateway to new knowledge, but also a self-referential technique to explore consciousness itself. The Tuning the Student Mind book shares the transformative journey that Molly and her students take over the course of a semester.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Loyola University Chicago, and the University of Pittsburgh, holding master’s degrees in both public administration and sociology, Molly has been a professor of sociology for twenty-one years at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. Recently named the co-director of the Program in Creativity and Consciousness at the University of Michigan, Molly is a passionate advocate of consciousness-centered education. Molly has also been a visiting instructor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She is a member of the Society of Consciousness Studies.

Molly and her husband, Mike, live in the Metro-Detroit area with their dog Lou and cat Georgie. They have three adult children and two brand new – beloved – grandbabies!