Archives: Authors

Alison Wearing

Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer and performer. Her new book, Moments of Glad Grace, will be published the fall of 2019.

Susan MacLeod is a Nova Scotian artist working on a humorous graphic memoir. You can follow her on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/humans_of_saint_vincents/" rel="noopener">@humans_of_saint_vincents</a>.

Sandra Oh

Sandra Oh is an actor best known for her role in Grey's Anatomy and is a dedicated mindfulness practitioner.

Taitetsu Unno

Taitetsu Unno (1929-2014) was a scholar and teacher in the Shin Buddhist tradition, as well as the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion at Smith College. One of the leading authorities in the United States on Shin Buddhism, his work as a translator has made many important Buddhist texts available to the English-speaking world.

Minh Do

Minh Do majored in Ch'an Buddhist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He now works as a venture capitalist, author, and media producer.

Alan Watts

Alan Watts was a British-American philosopher who interpreted and popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. He authored more than 25 books in his lifetime, including The Way of Zen and Become What You Are.

Laura Johnson

Laura Johnson, PhD, is a cultural geography lecturer at Humboldt State University, a yoga teacher, and a freelance writer. She and her husband live in Eureka, CA, where they are building a permaculture homestead, operating a cottage food business, and working toward personal and collective healing.

Eihei Dogen

<a href="/buddhism/dogen/">Eihei Dogen</a> (1200–1253) was the founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan. His masterwork, the 95-chapter Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo), is considered one of the seminal works in Buddhist literature.

Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil

Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil is an award-winning reporter based in Southern California and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

Doyeon Park

Rev. Doyeon Park is a Kyomunim, literally meaning one who devotes oneself to teach Buddha dharma in the Won Buddhist tradition. She has served as a minister of the Manhattan Won Buddhist temple and a representative of Won Buddhism at the United Nations since 2008. She is the Buddhist Religious Life Adviser at Columbia University and the Buddhist chaplain at New York University.

Ayya Suddhama

Ven. Ayya Suddhama is the first American woman ordained in Sri Lanka and abbess of Charlotte Buddhist Vihara in North Carolina.

Jessica Pimentel

Jessica Pimentel is an actor and musician best known for her role as Maria Ruiz in Orange Is the New Black.

Maia Duerr

Maia Zenyu Duerr is the author of Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood that Reflects Your Core Intention. A student in the Soto Zen lineage for many years, she has served as the executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and the director of Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program. Maia also has a master's degree in cultural anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She draws on all these experiences to create tools for integrating mindfulness into the workplace. Maia lives in Northern New Mexico.

Lauren Casalino

Lauren Casalino is a licensed counselor and an associate professor at Naropa University.

Kira Newman

Kira M. Newman writes, edits, and produces content for all of the Greater Good Science Center’s websites, from the magazine to Greater Good in Action to the Science of Happiness MOOC, for which she’s served as course assistant for three semesters.

Hooria Jazaieri

Hooria Jazaieri, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She studies the role of social cognitive constructs (e.g., reputation, team chemistry) and positive affect (e.g., compassion, joy, gratitude) on individual and team performance. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Science Center, and Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.

Jeremy Adam Smith

Jeremy Adam Smith edits the Greater Good Science Center’s online magazine, Greater Good, and helps launch new products like Thnx4.org and Greater Good in Action. He is the author of The Daddy Shift, and also co-edited the collection Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, as well as two Greater Good anthologies, Are We Born Racist?, and The Compassionate Instinct.

Jake Davis

Jake Davis studied and practiced under the guidance of Sayadaw U Pandita for nearly a decade, both as a layperson and as a monk. He currently teaches at Brown University and with Vipassana Hawaii.

Zachiah Murray

Zachiah Murray is the author of Mindfulness in the Garden: Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt and a member of the Order of Interbeing in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Christopher Stagg

Christopher Stagg was a Tibetan translator and interpreter for Nalandabodhi and the Nitartha Institute. He studied at Vajra Vidya Institute in Varanasi, India, and at Namo Buddha in Nepal. He translated The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa (Shambhala, 2017) under the direction of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. He died in October, 2018.