Archives: Authors

Jill Satterfield

Jill Satterfield is a meditation teacher whose Applied Embodied Mindfulness Trainings are part of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.

Daniel Cozort recently retired as a professor of religion at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of books on Buddhist philosophy, tantra, and ethics, and was editor of The Journal of Buddhist Ethics.

Kathie Fischer

Sokaku Kathie Fischer was ordained as a Zen priest in 1980 and received dharma transmission in 2011. She’s a retired middle school science teacher.

Reverend Zenshin Florence Caplow

Reverend Zenshin Florence Caplow has served as a minister of UU congregations in Washington, Colorado, and Illinois. She’s also a Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi tradition.

Tanya Marie Bonner

Tanya Marie Bonner is the managing editor for Buddhist Justice Reporter. She has been a lay practitioner of Zen Buddhism for two decades. Her sangha is where she is welcomed. She has practiced at Zen Mountain Monastery, Zen Center of New York City in Brooklyn, and NY Insight Meditation Center in New York City. She currently resides in New York City.

Marianna Pogosyan

Born in Armenia and raised in Japan, Marianna Pogosyan currently lives in the Netherlands, where she is a lecturer in cultural psychology. She is a consultant to international executives and their families on psychological adaptation to life far from home.

Rehena Harilall

rehena Harilall (we,she/her) is South African, a psychologist and management consultant who celebrates African and Indian heritages. She was born and grew up during the Apartheid regime and was involved in various Reconstruction and Development work post democratic elections in 1994. She now lives and works from the United Kingdom as a management consultant. She has been practising in the Plum Village tradition since 1998 and also practises in the Tibetan and Insight Traditions. She practises with BIPOC and Non-BIPOC Buddhist Communities in South Africa, the UK, and USA. She is currently engaged in various revitalisation and re-pairing projects in Kwazulu-Natal focusing on the renewal of rural spaces most impacted by the legacy of apartheid and climate change.

Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Aishah Shahidah Simmons (she/her), is a Buddhist practitioner in the Theravada tradition, and a trauma-informed Mindfulness meditation teacher. A Black feminist lesbian cultural worker, she is also the producer/director of the 2006-released, Ford Foundation-funded film, <a href="http://notherapedocumentary.org/" rel="noopener">NO! The Rape Documentary</a>, and the editor of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Accountability-Digging-Roots-Sexual/dp/1849353522" rel="noopener">love WITH accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse</a> (AK Press 2019). (<a href="https://linktr.ee/afrolez" rel="noopener">https://linktr.ee/afrolez</a>)

Lori Perine

Lori Perine (True Harmonious Dwelling) is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing and a core member of the ARISE (Awakening through Race, Intersectionality, and Social Equity) Sangha. Her practice of engaged Buddhism manifests in her work as a college educator and mentor to black, Latinx, and immigrant youth and as a policy-maker, advocating for inclusion and progress of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM education, research, and industry.

Zenzele Isoke

Zenzele Isoke, Ph.D. Zenzele Isoke is a black feminist theorist, urban ethnographer, and political storyteller. She is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Urban Black Women and the Politics of Resistance (Palgrave 2013). Zenzele leads meditation groups through Common Ground Meditation Center and Yoga Room in North Minneapolis.

Trent Walker

Trent Walker is the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, where his research focuses on chant and manuscript traditions in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. His first book, Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia, will be released by Shambhala Publications next year. <a href="http://www.trentwalker.org/" rel="noopener">www.trentwalker.org</a>

Lama Liz Monson

Lama Liz Monson is spiritual codirector of Natural Dharma Fellowship and managing teacher of Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in New Hampshire

Gendo Lucy Xiao

Gendo Lucy Xiao is a priest at San Francisco Zen Center as well as a doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine

Craig Blinderman

Dr. Craig (Anshin) Blinderman is the director of the Adult Palliative Medicine Service at Columbia University Medical Center and serves on the advisory board of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

Mariana Restrepo

Mariana Restrepo is deputy editor of Buddhadharma, Lion's Roar's online source for committed Buddhists. Born and raised in Colombia, she practices in the Nyingma-Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. She holds a Master's degree in Religious Studies and resides in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina with her husband and two children. Mariana's work emphasizes amplifying Latinx Buddhist voices and fostering diversity within Buddhist communities.

John A Martson

John A. Marston is a professor at the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de México in Mexico City. He has written extensively about Cambodian Buddhism.

Ikumi Kaminishi

Ikumi Kaminish is an associate professor of the history of art and architecture at Tufts University. She specializes in Buddhist art.

Denise Leidy

Denise Leidy is the author of The Art of Buddhism and coauthor of Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment.

Damchö Diana Finnegan

Damchö Diana Finnegan is a translator, author, and cofounder of Comunidad Dharmadatta (Dharmadatta Community), a Spanish-speaking community that locates gender and ecological issues at the heart of Buddhist practice. She co-edited and translated Interconnected: Embracing Life in a Global Society and The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World From the Inside Out. From 1999, she held monastic vows for over two decades.

Breeshia Wade

Breeshia Wade is an ordained Buddhist chaplain and the author of Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow.