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Sister Boi Nghiem

Sister Boi Nghiem, or Sister True Pearl, is a nun and dharma teacher at Deer Park Monastery in California. She enjoys music and basketball.

James K. Rowe

James K. Rowe is an associate professor at the University of Victoria. He’s the author of Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital.

Linda Hess

Linda Hess is a Zen practitioner, a translator of the Indian poet Kabir, a retired Stanford professor of Religious Studies, and a scholar and writer on various subjects.

Eunsu Cho is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Seoul National University and Visiting Professor in the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University. She is the editor of Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen--Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality, also published by SUNY Press. Soojin Oh is a freelance translator. She studied at Reed College.

Sanathavihari Bhikkhu

Sanathavihari Bhikkhu is a Mexican American Theravada Buddhist monk. He has a BA in religion and an MS in counseling psychology and is currently enrolled in the Buddhist Chaplaincy program at Upaya Zen Center.

David Chang

David Chang, PhD., is a psychotherapist, educator, and Zen practitioner in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chandra Chiara Ehm

CHANDRA CHIARA EHM is a researcher in Tibetan and religious studies affiliated with the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO), Paris, and with Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich. She works with both philological and qualitative research methods, drawing on extensive fieldwork.

Andrea Burgos

Andrea Burgos met her teacher, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, in 2015 during a trip to Kathmandu, Nepal, and has been his student ever since. In 2017, while living in Bangkok, she discovered her love for Ashtanga yoga. Since then, yoga and meditation have played vital roles in her personal journey. Becoming a mother inspired Andrea to share her experiences in balancing the demands of her career as a real estate agent, family life, and her yoga and meditation practice as she strives to cultivate harmony in every area of her life. Andrea currently lives in La Riviera Maya, Mexico, with her husband and son.

Marisela B. Gomez

Marisela B. Gomez (she/they) is a dharma teacher in the Thich Nhat Hanh Order of Interbeing, and a dharma practitioner for more than 20 years. Her practice focuses on mindfulness in everyday life. This includes her work as a public health scholar, activist, physician, and solidarity economy organizer. Of Afro-Latina ancestry, they live in Baltimore. She co-authored the book Healing our Way Home and authored Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore as well as numerous book chapters, and articles in popular and scholarly publications. She has blogged on the intersection of spirituality and justice at Huff Post and on the intersection of community rebuilding, wisdom justice and health at mariselabgomez.com. They’ve also delivered a TedTalk on healing racism through “waking up.”

Paulina Lamas Morales

Paulina Lamas Morales is the Co-founder and Director of Instituto Felicidad Sustentable, an organization dedicated to contemplative sciences and practices. She is a clinical psychologist graduated from Universidad Central de Chile and holds extensive academic and professional expertise in mindfulness and compassion.

Katsuzen King

Katsuzen King is a dharma Teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Katsuzen is the founder of the Dharma Bridge Foundation and guiding teacher of the Windsor Zen Group and the Tijuana Zen Center. For more information on teachings and retreats offered by Katsuzen, visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/565343696899697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Windsor Zen Group</a> Katsuzen King es maestro del dharma en la tradición de Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Es fundador de la Fundación Dharma Bridge y guía espiritual del Grupo Zen de Windsor y del Centro Zen Tijuana. Para más información sobre las enseñanzas y talleres que Katsuzen ofrece, visita la página de <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/565343696899697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Windsor Zen Group</a>

Acharya Samaneti

Acharya Samaneti is a prison spiritual care worker, philosopher, lover of the written word and seeker of truth. The contemplative life called him very early in his life; an only child, Samaneti found comfort in silence, reflection, and personal inquiry. Samaneti wishes to bear witness to the universality of suffering and actions of love that awaken hearts. This mission leads him to work with incarcerated people and other marginalized populations.

Kathleen McDonald

Originally from California, Kathleen McDonald (Sangye Khadro) began studying Buddhism with Tibetan lamas in Dharamsala, India, in 1973. She became a nun in Nepal the following year, and received full (bhikshuni) ordination in 1988. She currently resides at Sravasti Abbey in Washington State, USA, and teaches online. She is the author of How to Meditate: A Practical Guide and Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion.

Gerry Shishin Wick

GERRY SHISHIN WICK is the President of Great Mountain Zen Center and former President of the White Plum Asanga. A Dharma Successor of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Wick also studied with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and Sochu Suzuki Roshi. Wick received a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley in 1967 and has worked as a professor, science writer, and oceanographer, among other roles. He is the author of multiple books on Zen.

Sister Tue Nghiem

Sister Tue Nghiem became a fully ordained Buddhist nun in 1996. She enjoys learning about neuroscience, knitting socks, listening to Mozart, and making samosas.

Gregory Mengel

Gregory Mengel is a senior teacher with the UNtraining, which offers classes for white-identified people to unlearn white racial conditioning.

Susan Kaiser Greenland

Susan Kaiser Greenland is a mindfulness educator who distills wisdom traditions and scientific research into straightforward practices. Her new book is Real-World Enlightenment.

James C. Hopkins

When James C. Hopkins retired from his job as a stockbroker in 2004, he checked into a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu and has been living there ever since. He’s the author of various books of poetry, including A Sleeping Tiger Dreams of Manhattan.

Martina Draszczyk

Martina Draszczyk is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, an interpreter, and a Dharma teacher. She holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies and Tibetology from the University of Vienna, where she engaged in research for many years. Her work focuses on Tibetan Madhyamaka, Mahamudra, buddha-nature, and mindfulness. Draszczyk served as a Guest Professor at McGill University and the University of Vienna.

Kim Thai

Kim Thai (she/her) is a writer, mindfulness teacher, community organizer, and Emmy-award-winning storyteller. A student in the Plum Village tradition, she’s the founder of Joyful Liberation Collective, a grassroots community organization that provides space and ways to find liberation within the oppressive systems we live in. Her essays have been published in New York Magazine’s The Cut, Newsweek, and Buzzfeed.