Archives: Authors
Olivier Adam
Olivier Adam is a freelance photographer and a teacher of photography in Paris. He has been documenting the rich and luminous world of Buddhist nuns since 2008. His photographs focus on the spiritual path and the strength of Tibetan nuns. His pictures are regularly published in English and French magazines, and he also regularly works for the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness Karmapa, taking pictures during the Dalai Lama’s European travels. Olivier and Dominique help many charity projects that support Himalayan nuns. You can see some of Olivier's work here: <a href="http://www.olivieradam.net/">www.olivieradam.net</a> and support Himalayan nuns in buying Fine Art prints here: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DaughtersofBuddha">www.daughtersofbuddha.etsy.com</a>
Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner is executive director of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and director and chief editor of Treasury of Lives, an online bibliographic encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya.
Lina Blanchet
Lina Blanchet is a secondary school teacher and a student of Buddhism. She is currently pursuing a Master’s in Mindfulness for Educators at Antioch University, New England and is a member of the Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County in Pennsylvania.
Bhante Suddhaso
Bhante Suddhaso is a Buddhist monk in the Thai Forest Tradition. He lives in New York City.
Bonnie Nadzam
Bonnie Nadzam’s most recent novel is <em>Lions</em>. She’s a student in the White Plum Asanga and the mother of twin boys.
Heather Lyn Mann
Spiritual Ecologist Heather Lyn Mann is the author of <em>Ocean of Insight: A Sailor's Voyage from Despair to Hope</em>.
Judy Roitman
Judy Roitman (Zen Master Bon Hae) began practicing Zen in 1976 with Zen Master Seung Sahn at the Cambridge Zen Center. Two years later, she helped found the Kansas Zen Center with, among others, her husband Stan Lombardo. She was granted authorization as a teacher (<em>inka</em>) in the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1998 and received dharma transmission in 2013. She has also had a long and distinguished career as a professor of mathematics (although now retired from academic life) and as a poet.
Donna Rockwell
Donna Rockwell is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher living in Detroit.
Katie Letheren
Katie Letheren is a Buddhist American international aid worker currently working in the global health field in Liberia, West Africa. Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Katie attended New York University for her undergraduate degree in Political Science with a strong focus in journalism and the Middle East, and later attended Harvard School of Public Health’s Global Health Delivery Intensive program. Since then she has been bopping around the world with a cause - always letting the world’s events and the suffering it causes, no matter how painful it can be, soften her heart despite how badly it seems to want to harden it.
Carla Beharry
Carla is a devoted practitioner & teacher of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and pranayama breath work. She passionately works both in Canada and the Caribbean, where she facilitates women’s empowerment workshops. Find her at <a href="http://www.infiniteoceans.com">infiniteoceans.com</a> for training and support in rebuilding after trauma.
Charles G. Lief
Charles G. Lief is the president of Naropa University. For ten years he was the president of the Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, New York.
Richard Reoch
Richard Reoch is the former President of Shambhala. He <a href="http://richardreoch.info/">took part in the international interfaith mission</a> of witness to the Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh–Myanmar border from March 26-30, 2018.
David Kaczynski
David Kaczynski is executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty. He and his wife Linda Patrik received national attention in 1996 when it was revealed that David’s brother, Theodore, known as the Unabomber, had been turned in by his own family.
Peter Singer
Peter Singer is a moral philosopher whose work addresses altruism, human and animal rights, economics, world poverty, and religion. He is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, and a laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Singer has authored and co-authored many books, including <em>The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically</em>, and the seminal <em>Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals. </em>
Julia Wise
Julia Wise is a communications researcher at the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford, England, which runs and supports projects that promote altruistic ideas and aims. She also serves on the board of GiveWell, an independent, nonprofit charity evaluator. As well, she organizes effective altruism meetups in Boston, Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and child. Wise writes regularly on her website, <em>Giving Gladly: Altruism & The Good Life.</em>
Gretchen Rohr
Gretchen Rohr is founder of Justice in Balance, a restorative justice forum dedicated to reconciling communities impacted by violence. She serves as a magistrate judge at the D.C. Superior Court.
Douglas Abrams
Douglas Abrams is the founder and president of Idea Architects, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries to create a wiser, healthier, and more just word. He is also the co-founder with Pam Omidyar and Desmond Tutu of HumanJourney.com, a public benefit company working to share life- and world-changing ideas. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.