Nicole Daedone is the founder of the OneTaste retreat centers located in San Francisco and New York. She helped develop the OneTaste curriculum and train faculty based on her innovative approaches to relationships, healing and mindful sexuality. Mentored by Dr. Dean Barnlund, an early collaborator of Alan Watts, she writes, teaches and lectures on the relationship between language and spirituality, body and mind. Her undergraduate and graduate work was in gender studies and semantics.