Archives: Authors

Jose Shinzan Palma

José Shinzan Palma is a San Diego-based Zen priest working to foster an Hispanic Zen community in the US and Mexico.

Konda Mason

Konda Mason is a teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and cofounder of Impact Hub Oakland.

Liza Matthews

Liza Matthews is the art director and associate editor of Lion's Roar magazine.

Jennifer Urban-Brown

Jennifer Urban-Brown is an editor at Shambhala Publications/Roost Books. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and Boston Terrier.

Breeze Harper

Breeze Harper is a critical race feminist scholar, vegan activist, and diversity strategist.

Before Sister True Dedication ordained, she worked as a journalist for BBC News in London. She now edits books by Thich Nhat Hanh, including Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet and The Art of Living.

Randy Rosenthal

Randy Rosenthal teaches writing at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where he focused on Buddhist Studies, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and many other publications.

Alex Rodriguez

Alex W. Rodríguez is a writer, trombonist, and organizer currently serving as General Coordinator for the Bhumisparsha sangha and as Board President for Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, where his research focused on jazz clubs around the world and the communities that sustain them in Los Angeles, California; Santiago, Chile; and Novosibirsk, Siberia.

Ava Coulter

Ava Coulter is a summer editorial assistant at Lion’s Roar and student in the journalism program at the University of King’s College in Halifax. She has also written for <a href="https://www.thecoast.ca/">The Coast</a> and <a href="http://dalgazette.com/">The Dalhousie Gazette</a>. Check her out on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/avacoulter1">@avacoulter1</a>.

Edward Tick

Edward Tick is a writer and psychotherapist specializing in healing war trauma. He is the author of six books, including the award-winning War and the Soul and more than 150 articles. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in treating war trauma and has served as the Pentagon’s subject matter expert on post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury. He is the director of Soldier’s Heart, Inc., a non-profit addressing PTSD and Moral Injury.

Eric Steuer

Eric Steuer is a contributing editor at Wired.

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.

Pearl McLeod

David Cotie

Jacob Davis

Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of books on feminism, Western and Indigenous history, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster.

Sophia Kamps

Sophia Kamps is a summer intern for LionsRoar.com and a student of art history and political science at McGill University. During the school year she is a staff writer at the McGill Journal of Political Studies and the McGill International Review.

Alexander Weinstein

Alexander Weinstein is the director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and author of the short story collection Children of the New World.

Finn Enke

Finn Enke is a professor and the author of "Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism" (Duke University Press).

Cameron Conaway

<a href="https://cameronconaway.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cameron Conaway's</a> life was forever changed for the better thanks to a 2013 "Happy Teachers Change the World" retreat in Thailand with Thich Nhat Hanh. Today, he is a mindfulness-practicing business school professor fascinated by the intersection of business, ethics, and society — and by how effective workplace feedback, or what he calls employee feedback literacy, drives improvement in every field.