Octavia Nasr

Octavia Nasr is a Lebanese-American Rhetoric scholar and author whose research focuses on Yoga's identity and ethical code and how they apply to journalism and other fields. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Nasr currently serves as Journalism Professor and Yoga Editor. She is a certified yoga instructor who teaches in the U.S. and India. She began her journalism career as a war correspondent for Lebanon's LBCI in the 1980s before moving to the US in 1990 and working for CNN in various on-air and off-air roles until her departure in 2010.