Archives: Authors
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 <em>The Way of Zen</em> and <em>Become What You Are</em>.
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 <em>Treasury of the True Dharma Eye</em> (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 <em>Orange Is the New Black</em>.
Maia Duerr
Maia Zenyu Duerr is the author of <em>Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood that Reflects Your Core Intention</em>. 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, <em>Greater Good</em>, and helps launch new products like Thnx4.org and Greater Good in Action. He is the author of <em>The Daddy Shift</em>, and also co-edited the collection <em>Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood</em>, as well as two Greater Good anthologies, <em>Are We Born Racist?</em>, and <em>The Compassionate Instinct</em>.
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 <em>The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa</em> (Shambhala, 2017) under the direction of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. He died in October, 2018.
John Genjin Becvar
John Genjin Becvar is a novice priest with Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in Cornwall, Vermont, and a graduate of the Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program. He lives in Ottawa, Canada with his partner and three sons where he works for the Canadian Mental Health Association and in overdose prevention programs
Ivan Cash
Ivan Cash is an award-winning interactive artist, film director, and founder of Cash Studios. His conceptually-driven, genre-bending media projects spark meaningful conversation and impact culture, having been featured in <em>The New York Times,</em> CNN, <em>TIME,</em> <em>The Guardian,</em> <em>Fast Company</em>, Buzzfeed, <em>The Atlantic</em>, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees. He has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 artist, an Art Directors Club Young Gun, and a Print New Visual Artist. His work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and has exhibited internationally, from the Brooklyn Museum to the Australian Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. You can find more about him on <a href="http://www.ivancash.com" rel="noopener">ivancash.com</a>
Nancy Levine
Nancy Levine is an author and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Salon, AlterNet, Rantt Media, and Feminine Collective. She's the author of the four-book series starting with <em>The Tao of Pug</em> (Penguin/Skyhorse).
Andrew Glencross
Andrew Glencross is a musician and the Associate Art Director of <em>Lion 's Roar</em> magazine.
Diana Reynolds Roome
Diana Reynolds Roome, writer and editor, has been a student of the Middle Way ever since first encountering Buddhism in Nepal fifty years ago. Since then she has tried to keep learning and practicing in England, California and Oregon.