Kim Allen began meditating in 2003, seeking both a path out of suffering and the deeper truths of life. She has practiced in the US and Sri Lanka and was trained by Gil Fronsdal at...
Kim Allen
Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism, such as Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthāna, and Satipatthāna Meditation: A Practice Guide. He is a...
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Paula Arai (Ph.D. from Harvard University) has been teaching Buddhist Studies for over 26 years and is author off Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra—The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo; Bringing...
Paula Arai
Mary Aubry leads meditation retreats on insight, the jhānas, abiding in emptiness, and the brahmavihārās. In addition, she has taught for programs that support mindfully meeting aging, illness, and dying, as well as training meditation companions...
Mary Aubry
Yahel Avigur is a teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition. He completed his teacher-training in 2020 under the guidance of Rob Burbea, with a particular emphasis on Emptiness and Jhana practices.Currently he's in training...
Yahel Avigur
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia has been a Dhamma teacher since 1990. She is a student of the western forest sangha, the disciples of Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Chah, and is a Lay Buddhist Minister in...
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Jacoby Ballard teaches yoga and dharma as it intersects with social justice and leads trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has meditated since he was 17 years old and trained...
Jacoby Ballard
Lawrence Barriner II is a narrative strategist, connector, and systems thinker. Lawrence first explored weaving meditation and storytelling together with his friend, Fez Aswat. Over the course of his professional career, he has honed...
Lawrence Barriner II
Stephen Batchelor is a writer, teacher, translator, and artist known for his secular approach to the Dharma. A co-founder of Bodhi College, his books include Buddhism Without Beliefs, Living with the Devil, Confession of a Buddhist...
Stephen Batchelor
Brent Beresford’s greatest teachers are his children, showing him how unreasonable his expectations are and encouraging the practice of relationship and community. His work has been in engaging the power of relationships, accompanying individuals...
Brent Beresford
Chris Berlin is an instructor in spiritual counseling, chaplaincy, Buddhist ministry, resilience, and contemplative practices at both Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Extension School. He has worked as a full-time clinical chaplain at...
Chris Berlin
Ajahn Brahmali was born in Norway in 1964. He first became interested in Buddhism and meditation in his early 20s while visiting Japan. He took full ordination in 1996 at the Bodhinyana Monastery with...
Ajahn Brahmali
Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khema. Leigh began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994, and began teaching retreats on his...
Leigh Brasington
Joshuah Brian Campbell is the Director of music and arts at Wake Forest School of Divinity and Director of the University Gospel Choir. In addition to a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard, Campbell also holds a Master...
Joshuah Brian Campbell
Shaila Catherine is the founder of Bodhi Courses, an online Dhamma classroom, and Insight Meditation South Bay, a Buddhist meditation center in Silicon Valley. She authored two books on concentration and insight—Focused and Fearless:...
Shaila Catherine
Ying Chen took refuge to become a Buddhist with Venerable Ji Ru in graduate school. After graduating, Ying began her exploration of the Chinese Agamas and suttas in a Chinese Buddhist sangha. Since 2005 she...
Ying Chen
David Chernikoff, LCSW, M.Div., is a meditation teacher, spiritual counselor, and life coach who taught psychology and meditation at Naropa University for many years. In the early 1980s, he worked at Ram Dass’s Hanuman Foundation...
David Chernikoff
Yenkuei Chuang 莊琰珪 (she/her) lives near Boston, USA. As an immigrant woman of color, she is keenly interested in building a beloved inclusive community. Yenkuei began her daily life dharma practice with Zen Masters...
Yenkuei Chuang
Diana Clark teaches with an emphasis on both the beautiful and the practical. She has trained in the Theravada tradition, studies and teaches about the early Buddhist teachings found in the Pali Canon, and is...
Diana Clark
Clayton Moon Clemetson has been immersed in earth-based ways of living for most of their life, from home-schooling in rural Maine to traveling with Kroka Expeditions in Ecuador. They feel fortunate to have received an...
Clayton Moon Clemetson
Paul Condon, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University. He has also served as a visiting lecturer for the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute and is a fellow...
Paul Condon
Jeanne Corrigal is the guiding teacher for the Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community, and a graduate of the 2017-2021 IMS teacher training program. She deeply appreciates metta and nature based practices. She is certified with Indigenous Focusing...
Jeanne Corrigal
Robin Craig is a certified Meditation Teacher in The Mind Illuminated approach. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Faculty with Organic Intelligence®. Robin has degrees in Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, and Counseling Psychology, as...
Robin Craig
Chris Crotty is a Dharma teacher in the insight tradition, a Buddhist pastoral counselor, and adjunct professor in alternative medicine. Practicing meditation since 1998, he has trained with Burmese meditation masters, western monastics of...
Chris Crotty
For over 20 years, Nakawe Cuebas has immersed herself in the teachings of the early Buddhist schools, mainly Theravada and Thai Forest. She studied in the Dedicated Practitioners Program and Community Dharma Leaders Program...
Nakawe Cuebas
Roxanne Dault has been dedicated to this practice since 2006, sitting long silent retreats both in Asia and in the West. A teacher at True North Insight in Canada, she is also trained in Somatic Experiencing®,...
Roxanne Dault
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā is a scholar-monastic and practitioner, born in Italy in 1980. She is the director of the Āgama Research Group and her main research interests are the early Buddhist discourses and Vinaya texts,...
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Ayya Dhammadīpā is the founder of Dassanāya Buddhist Community. She is a dual lineage teacher - a fully ordained bhikkhuni in the Theravāda tradition, and a Dharma transmitted teacher in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage...
Ayya Dhammadīpā
John Dunne (PhD 1999, Harvard University) serves on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds. In addition to serving as...
John Dunne
William Edelglass is Director of Studies at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He publishes broadly in Buddhist studies, environmental humanities, and philosophy. William has practiced in several different Buddhist traditions and has taught widely in dharma centers,...
William Edelglass
Kirstin Edelglass is a wilderness guide, ecological educator, and counselor whose passion for supporting young adults runs deep. In addition to teaching at Sterling College, Colby College, Marlboro College, and Lesley University’s Audubon Expedition Institute, she...
Kirstin Edelglass
Max Erdstein teaches at the Insight Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center. He is trained as a teacher by Gil Fronsdal. Max has practiced Vipassana and Zen in America, Japan, Thailand, and Burma. He...
Max Erdstein
Gil Fronsdal has practiced extensively in Soto Zen and Theravada Buddhism training in the US, Japan, Thailand, and Burma. He is a teacher at the Insight Meditation Center, the Insight Retreat Center, and Spirit Rock...
Gil Fronsdal
Francisco Morillo Gable has been devoted to Dharma since 2003. Thanks to this, he made an unexpected recovery from an accident that rendered him permanently disabled. He studies and teaches early Buddhism with Bikkhu Analayo, and...
Francisco Gable
Valeria Galetto began practicing insight meditation in 2012, under the supervision of Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella at the Insight Meditation Center (IMC). She is a mentor in the Noble Eightfold Path Program and...
Valeria Galetto
Wendy Garling has a BA from Wellesley College and MA specializing in Sanskrit language and literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a vajrayana practitioner and dharma teacher in the Gelug Lam...
Wendy Garling
Cheryl Giles is the Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling and core faculty for the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School. She joined the faculty in 1997 and teaches...
Cheryl Giles
Farah Godrej is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her areas of research and teaching include Indian political thought, Gandhi’s political thought, cosmopolitanism, globalization, and comparative political theory....
Farah Godrej
Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder and guiding teacher of IMS. He has been teaching vipassanā and mettā retreats worldwide since 1974. In 1989, he helped establish BCBS and, more recently, IMS's Forest Refuge. He...
Joseph Goldstein
Michael Grady began practicing Insight Meditation with Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg in 1974 when they first returned from Asia. He has also been a student of the late Chan master Sheng Yen who taught...
Michael Grady
Kevin Griffin is a Buddhist teacher and author of several books, including “One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps.” A co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network, he was instrumental in the...
Kevin Griffin
GuoGu (Jimmy Yu) is a Chan (Zen) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center and the founder of the socially engaged intra-denominational Buddhist organization, Dharma Relief. Guo Gu is also an Associate Professor...
GuoGu
Anu Gupta is a dedicated practitioner in the Insight and the SRF traditions. He was introduced to the Dharma through his family and has sat numerous retreats in North America and Asia since 2004....
Anu Gupta
Charles Hallisey is Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at Harvard Divinity School where he teaches about Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist ethics as well as Pali language and literature. His translation of the...
Charles Hallisey
Chenxing Han is the author of the widely reviewed Be the Refuge: Raising theVoices of Asian American Buddhists (2021) and one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care (2023), both with North Atlantic...
Chenxing Han
Diego Hangartner has dedicated over thirty years to external scientific research and internal meditative exploration of the mind and consciousness. He started as a pharmacologist specializing in psychopharmacology and addiction, always interested in what constitutes...
Diego Hangartner
Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His six books have been published in 30 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Just...
Rick Hanson
Dr. Melanie L. Harris is Founding Director of African American and Africana Studies and full Professor of Religion and Ethics at TCU. A graduate of the Harvard Leadership Program, she is an educator and community...
Melanie L. Harris
devon hase loves long retreats. Cumulatively, she’s spent four years in silent practice in the Insight and Vajrayana traditions. Since discovering meditation in 2000, she has put dharma and community at the center of...
devon hase
nico hase lived in a monastery for six years before earning a PhD in counseling psychology and becoming an Insight Meditation teacher full time. He currently mentors mindfulness teachers, teaches online and in-person retreats, and...
nico hase
David Hinton has published many books of poetry, nonfiction, and translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy. These books are all informed by an abiding interest in deep ecological thinking, in exploring the weave...
David Hinton
Christopher Ives, PhD, is a professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College. In his teaching and writing he focuses on modern Zen ethics, and currently he is working on Buddhist approaches to nature and...
Chris Ives
Roger Jackson is John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, at Carleton College, Minnesota, where he taught the religions of South Asia and Tibet. He has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies...
Roger Jackson
Dr. Pilar Jennings is a psychoanalyst based in New York City with a focus on the clinical applications of Buddhist meditation practice. She has been a Buddhist practitioner for 40 years; a teacher of...
Pilar Jennings
Kate Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher, writer and mama who loves integrating embodiment, justice, and the practice of wise relationship in all of her work. She’s been a passionate practitioner in the Western Insight/Theravada...
Kate Johnson
Robert A. Jonas, Ed.D. (Harvard University), M.T.S. (Weston Jesuit School of Theology) was trained as a psychotherapist and is now a retreat leader, environmental activist, author, and musician. Dr. Jonas is the director of The...
Robert A. Jonas
Philip Jones started meditating in 1987, teaching Insight Meditation in 1996, and graduated from Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leader program in 2000. Phil co-founded Show Me Dharma in Columbia, MO and has served on...
Philip Jones
Georgia Kashnig is a Zen practitioner, a dancer, and a facilitator of sacred reading spaces. They received an MTS in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School, an MA in the Regional Studies, East Asia Department...
Georgia Kashnig
Dr. Stephanie Kaza is the author of Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times; Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume; and Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology....
Stephanie Kaza
Sumi Loundon Kim (she, her) is the Buddhist chaplain at Yale University, previously serving in the same role at Duke University for eight years. She is the founder of and was the primary teacher...
Sumi Loundon Kim
Anne C. Klein/ Rigzin Drolma is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Religion at Rice University. She is also a Lama in the Nyingma tradition, and in 1996 co-founded Dawn Mountain, a...
Anne C. Klein (Rigzin Drolma)
Madeline Klyne has loved the dharma since 1986. She is the resident teacher at Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, a visiting teacher at Insight Meditation Society, and a co-founding teacher at South Shore Insight Meditation...
Madeline Klyne
Gregory Kramer has been teaching vipassanā since 1980, having been trained by Ven. Ananda Maitreya Mahanayaka Thera, Punnaji Maha Thera, Achan Sobin Namto, and Anagarika Dhammadina. He is the co-creator and developer of Insight...
Gregory Kramer
Amer Latif is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in comparative religion and Islamic studies. He is particularly interested in the role of poetry, music, and ritual in religious practice. He has published translations of the poetry...
Amer Latif
Rachel Lewis began practicing insight meditation in 2003, while completing her physics PhD at Yale. Since 2011, she has taught dharma and meditation classes and retreats in British Columbia and beyond. She completed the IMS/IRC...
Rachel Lewis
Adam Lobel, PhD, is a meditation teacher and a scholar-practitioner of philosophy and religion. Adam’s teachings focus on the intersection of contemporary thought, Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, ecopsychology, and transformational politics. A professor of ecopsychology...
Adam Lobel
David Lorey began meditating as a teenager in the 1970s, did intensive training in transcendental meditation, and then came to practice in the container of the Buddhadharma in the early 2000s. He explores the early...
David Lorey
David R. Loy is especially interested in the conversation between Buddhism and modernity. His books include A New Buddhist Path, Ecodharma: Buddhist teachings for the Ecological Crisis, Nonduality, Lack and Transcendance, A Buddhist History...
David Loy
Dawn MacDonald is deeply grateful for opportunities to study and teach the dharma. She is certified as a trainer and a teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Mindful Self Compassion and teaches Compassion Cultivation Training. She lives on...
Dawn MacDonald
Joanna Macy, Ph.D., teacher and author, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Macy has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and...
Joanna Macy
Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D., is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and has spent more than twenty years integrating anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices. She is an internationally-recognized innovator,...
Rhonda Magee
Barry Magid he has been teaching Zen for over 20 years, having received Dharma Transmission from Charlotte Joko Beck. A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he has been at the forefront of integrating Zen and...
Barry Magid
John Makransky, PhD, is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, and...
John Makransky
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Ph.D. (she/her) poet, author, ordained, Zen priest, was born to parents who migrated from rural Louisiana at the start of WWII, she has walked through many different doors spiritually and academically. She...
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Rupert Marques has practiced in the insight meditation tradition for over 25 years in Europe, America, and Asia. His teaching emphasizes the role of the Dharma in the movements for social justice and ecological...
Rupert Marques
Konda Mason is a social entrepreneur, eco-spiritual thought leader, mindfulness teacher and justice advocate working at the intersection of social and financial justice and planetary healing. Konda was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism in 1982....
Konda Mason
Catherine McGee has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats internationally since 1999. She is a member of the Gaia House teacher council, teaches yearly at IMS and BCBS and is a guiding teacher for One...
Catherine McGee
Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson has taught meditation for twenty years in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular contexts. He is an editor at Ten Percent Happier and a columnist for The Daily Beast whose ten books include Evolving Dharma:...
Jay Michaelson
Elizabeth Monson, PhD, is the Spiritual Co-Director of Natural Dharma Fellowship and has taught at the Harvard Divinity School. She currently serves as the managing teacher of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge, a Buddhist meditation retreat...
Elizabeth Monson
Susan Moon is a writer and lay Zen teacher, practicing at Berkeley Zen Center and with the Everyday Zen sangha. She leads Zen and writing retreats in the Bay Area and beyond. Alive Until You’re...
Susan Moon
Jessica Morey began practicing meditation at age fourteen, on teen retreats offered by the Insight Meditation Society. She is a meditation teacher who brings a sense of playfulness and care to her teaching and is...
Jessica Morey
Bill Morgan, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, MA. He has participated in many intensive retreats in meditation practice over the past 40 years and recently completed a four-year meditation retreat...
Bill Morgan
Susan Morgan, CNS, is a psychotherapist in Cambridge, MA. She is a board and faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. Susan has a longstanding...
Susan Morgan
Larkspur Morton, Ph.D. has devoted the last two decades to teaching and leading experiential education programs focused on natural history and ecology, cultural perspectives and worldviews, the functioning of vital learning communities, and advocacy...
Larkspur Morton
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara is the abbot of the Village Zendo in Manhattan. She is a Soto Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum lineage. She holds a PhD in...
Pat Enkyo OHara
Andrew Olendzki is a scholar of early Buddhist thought and practice with a particular interest in the application of Buddhist teachings to contemporary life. He is a professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA,...
Andrew Olendzki
Walt Opie was first introduced to insight meditation in 1993 and began sitting retreats in 2005. Currently, his most influential teachers include Bhikkhu Anālayo, Joseph Goldstein, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and Gil Fronsdal. Walt is...
Walt Opie
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Ruth was ordained in 2010 and is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is the author of My...
Ruth Ozeki
Zeenat Potia teaches meditation in Buddhist and secular spaces, and has taught at CIMC since 2014. She practices vipassana at CIMC and the Insight Meditation Society, and is committed to healing and recovery through trauma-sensitive...
Zeenat Potia
Vance Pryor, PsyD, began insight meditation in 1998. He has been deeply influenced by the teachings of Sayadaw U Pandita and Sayadaw U Tejaniya. His training to become a teacher has been supported by...
Vance Pryor
Tim Ream is a long-time Earth activist and Zen practitioner. He received lay ordination from Tenshin Reb Anderson in 1994 and has since engaged in ongoing, intensive residential practice, mostly at Tassajara Zen Mountain...
Tim Ream
Nicola Redfern is an Insight Dialogue Retreat Teacher with an extensive background in both Zen and Vipassana meditation. With a strong belief that awakening is not simply a solo endeavor, Nic is particularly interested...
Nicola Redfern
Jan Rosamond leads the Dharmatown Insight Meditation Group in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioner, Community Dharma Leader, and Advanced Practitioner Programs. She loves chanting – especially in...
Jan Rosamond
Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum received lay entrustment in Soto Zen from Sojun Mel Weitsman, denkai in Ordinary Mind Zen from Karen Terzano, and is an heir of Grandmaster Hui Liu in Dayan Qigong. Professionally, Bob...
Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum
Jess Row is a novelist, essayist, and senior dharma teacher at the Kwan Um School of Zen. His second novel, The New Earth, will be published in March 2023. His other books include Your Face...
Jess Row
Dr. Peggy Rowe aspires to grow her heart as wide as the world. Her education is in counseling psychology and education. She works with clients in spiritual direction, and also supports clients and organizations...
Peggy Rowe-Ward
Tuere Sala is a Guiding Teacher at Seattle Insight Meditation Society (SIMS). She is a retired prosecuting attorney who has practiced Vipassana meditation for over 25 years and has been a practicing member of...
Tuere Sala
Santacitta Bhikkhuni was born in Austria and began her monastic training in England and Asia in 1993. She co-founded Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery in 2009 and received Bhikkhuni Ordination in 2011 and also received...
Ayya Santacitta
Ayya Santussika is a Theravada bhikkhuni who is trained and practicing in the Thai Forest tradition. Her faith in the Dhamma developed during many visits to monasteries of Ajahn Chah and his disciples in...
Ayya Santussika
Dawn Scott has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2008 and served as the Family Program Coordinator for eight years at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a graduate of the Insight Meditation Society’s 2017...
Dawn Scott
Sebene Selassie began studying Buddhism over 25 years ago as an undergraduate at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader (CDL4) program at...
Sebene Selassie
Jill Shepherd began practicing insight meditation in Thailand in 1999, and since that time has lived and worked at several meditation centers and monasteries in the US, Australia, England, and Thailand. She spent seven...
Jill Shepherd
Mu Soeng is Scholar Emeritus at BCBS. He trained in the (Korean) Zen tradition and was a monk for eleven years. He is the author of Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen (Tradition and Teachers); The Diamond Sutra:...
Mu Soeng
Oren Jay Sofer has practiced meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition since 1997. He holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University, is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma, a Certified Nonviolent Communication...
Oren Jay Sofer
Ajahn Sucitto became a bhikkhu in Thailand in 1976 but returned to live in his native England in 1978, where he has been involved in the founding of several monasteries in the Thai Forest...
Ajahn Sucitto
Bhikkhu Sujato was ordained in 1994 as a Theravāda monk in the Thai forest lineage of Ajahn Chah. He lived as a monk in Thailand for some years and then returned to his native Australia,...
Bhikkhu Sujato
Heather Sundberg has taught insight meditation since 1999, completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training program under Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, and is currently a member of the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council. For the last...
Heather Sundberg
Janet Surrey, PhD is an Insight Dialogue Teacher. She teaches Insight Dialogue retreats worldwide and leads a longstanding practice group in the Boston area. She has practiced in the Insight tradition for over 30...
Janet Surrey
Anam Thubten grew up in Tibet and began to practice in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism at an early age. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the founder...
Anam Thubten
Nolitha is a mindfulness teacher, psychologist and executive coach in South Africa. She has been a meditation practitioner for more than twenty years under Kittisaro and Thanissara, who are students of Ajahn Chah. Nolitha...
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and collective transformation. Eden spent...
Deborah Eden Tull
Peace Twesigye is the Program Manager of Buddhist Studies at Union Theological Seminary. Peace assists in designing and overseeing curriculum in Buddhist Studies. Peace organizes and manages public and private conversations and events as part...
Peace Twesigye
Mark Unno, PhD, is Professor of Buddhism and Dept Head of Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. The recipient of the Thomas F. Herman Distinguished Teaching Award, he is the author of Shingon...
Mark Unno
Bart van Melik has been teaching insight meditation and Insight Dialogue meditation since 2009, with a special focus on diverse communities. He brings the practice to juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters and NYC public...
Bart van Melik
Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Social Justice, and the Director of Peace and Justice Studies, at Warren Wilson College. She directs the Inside Out Prison Education Program, a partnership...
Rima Vesely-Flad
Trent Walker is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Berkeley,...
Trent Walker
Larry Ward is a senior teacher in Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village tradition. He brings twenty five years of international experience in organizational change and local community renewal to his work...
Larry Ward
Spring Washam is a meditation teacher, author, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California. She is the author of The Spirit of Harriet Tubman and A Fierce Heart. Spring is considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based...
Spring Washam
Akincano M. Weber is a European Buddhist practitioner, teacher and psychotherapist. A former monk, he practiced for 20 years in Thai Forest monasteries East and West and studied Buddhist Psychotherapy in London (M.A.). He is...
Akincano Weber
Duncan Ryūken Williams was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest at Kotakuji Temple (Nagano, Japan) in 1993. He served as a Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2000. Currently, he is Professor...
Duncan Ryūken Williams
Jan Willis (BA and MA in Philosophy from Cornell University; Ph.D. in Indic and Buddhist Studies from Columbia University) is a Professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has studied...
Jan Willis
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., Th.D. is a Community Dharma Leader, pastoral counselor, pastoral counseling instructor, and advocate. She is the co-founder of Buddhist Justice Reporter and Center of the Heart. Ayo is the author of...
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, psychologist, and psychotherapist in private practice. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and the founder and director of the Institute for...
