Archives: Authors
Shahara Godfrey
Shahara Godfrey is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center and holds a PhD in Transformative Learning from California Institute of Integral Studies.
Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance; as behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; as a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; as a certified Military and Family Life Consultant for the U.S. Armed Forces; as a trauma consultant for the Minneapolis Public Schools; and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department. As a Community Care Counselor, he managed the wellness and counseling services for civilians on fifty-three US military bases in Afghanistan. He currently teaches workshops on Cultural Somatics for audiences of African Americans, European Americans, and police officers, and is a therapist in private practice.
David Hinton
David Hinton has published numerous books of poetry and essays and many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy. This widely acclaimed work has earned Hinton a Guggenheim Fellowship, Landon Translation Award, PEN American Translation Award, and a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Constance Kassor
Constance Kassor Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she teaches courses on Buddhist thought and Asian religious traditions, with a special interest in how Buddhism relates to questions of social justice and gender. She is the creator and voice of <em>Religious Lessons from Asia to the World</em>, a ten-part program on Audible. For more information visit <a href="http://constancekassor.net/">constancekassor.net</a>
Barbara Gates
Barbara Gates is the author of <em>Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place</em> and a founding editor of the Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind (1984–2015).
Austin Mabry
Austin Mabry is a former Buddhist monk in the Plum Village Tradition. He currently lives and practices at Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in rural New Hampshire.
Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli is an actor known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He’s also a movie director, musician, and novelist.
Dzung X. Vo
Dr. Dzung X. Vo is a pediatrician at British Columbia Children’s Hospital and the author of <em>The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time</em>.
Dan Zigmond
Dan Zigmond is a writer, technologist, and Zen teacher. His most recent book <i><a href="http://amzn.to/2VYawga" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well</a></i> was published in 2019. You can find more of his teachings at <a href="https://www.shmonk.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.shmonk.com</a>.
Livia Kohn
Livia Kohnis professor emeritus in the Department of Religion at Boston University and a specialist in Daoism. Her latest book, <em>Full Potential: Daoist Wisdom Meets Western Psychology </em> (Three Pines Press), was published last year.
Choying Khandro
Chöying Khandro received the transmissions of both the Ganden and Machik Dakini Ear-Whispered Chöd lineages from her root teacher, the Ninth Khalkha Jetsün Dampa. Based in Springfield, Oregon, she is the founder and spiritual leader of Dakini’s Whisper, an international, online community whose mission is to integrate ancient wisdom into the individual and shared journey of dedicated, contemporary practitioners around the world. She has an MA in oriental philosophy from Waseda University in Japan and an MA in Buddhist studies from the University of Michigan and is also trained in body-oriented disciplines
Valerie Brown
Valerie Brown is a dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. She’s completing her forthcoming book: <em>Braver Things: Fearless Living for Broken-Open, Pulled Apart, and Turned Upside Down Times</em>.
Satya Robyn
Satya Robyn is a Pure Land priest at Amida Mandala Buddhist temple in the UK and a psychotherapist in private practice.
Jody Hojin Kimmel
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei, is the Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC-Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn and the training director for the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery, where she has been in full-time residential training for over thirty years. She ordained as a priest with John Daido Loori and received dharma transmission in 2017 from Geoffrey Shugen Arnold. She is also an artist and teaches Art Practices as a means to study the self and open oneself up to the creative process.
Vaishali Mamgain
Dr. Vaishali Mamgain received her PhD in Economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is currently an Associate Professor of Economics and the Director of the Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion at the University of Southern Maine. A pioneer in the field of contemplative education she facilitates Compassion Training workshops in the US and abroad. When COVID-19 forced an online transition, she was teaching Economics and Happiness – a contemplative class she had developed during a fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and the Courage of Care Coalition. She practices in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition under the tutelage of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and from 2014-2017 she did a 3-year meditation retreat at Samten Ling Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.
Linda González
Linda González is a life coach and the author of the memoir <em>The Cost of Our Lives</em>.
Rachel Paige King
Rachel Paige King is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>Slate</em>, <em>Salon</em>, and many other publications.