Charlene Leung

Charlene Leung

Charlene Leung is chair of the Diversity Working Group for Shambhala International and a facilitator for UNtraining, an organization devoted to healing personal and social oppressions. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her Chinese immigrant parents settled, and witnessed firsthand the discrimination and racial violence against Chinese Americans. Of dharma and diversity work, she says, “The two are inextricably linked for me.” She practices Chinese medicine as a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and teaches qigong.

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The Healing Practice of Cultural Humility

Charlene Leung discusses the importance of using Buddhist practice to become aware of our biases and develop cultural humility.