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Jim Lowrey
Jim Lowrey was an early student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who, with the rest of his Pygmy hippie family, went to Trungpa Rinpoche’s first public talk in Colorado in 1970 and connected with him immediately. As part of the early baby boom generation, Jim considers himself "emblematic of the sixties generation of war protesters, college dropouts, and hippies, who matured as the American born-again organic, locally grown, free-run middle class."
Cindy Littlefair
Cindy Littlefair has been on staff at Lion’s Roar for sixteen years. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College.
Caroline Contillo
Since completing the Dharma Immersion Program at the Interdependence Project in 2011, Caroline Contillo has been interested in using the lenses of mindfulness, improv comedy, direct action, and science fiction to see how we might co-create a just and joyous world. She teaches meditation at MNDFL, a new studio in Lower Manhattan. She lives in Queens, and invites you to check out her personal site <a href="http://spacecrone.com/">spacecrone.com</a> or follow her on twitter, <a href="http://twitter.com/spacecrone">@spacecrone</a>.
Krissy Pozatek
Krissy Pozatek, LCSW, is the author of <em>Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children</em> (Wisdom Publications).
Dave Smith
Dave Smith is a GenX dharma teacher whose work focuses on uncovering a dharma path found within the early Buddhist tradition.
Tenku Ruff
Tenku Ruff, Osho, is a Soto Zen priest who trained in Japan. She is a professional chaplain living in New York and holds a Master of Divinity from Maitripa College.
Nina La Rosa
Nina la Rosa teaches mindfulness-based psychotherapy and mindfulness at Exquisite Mind in Burlington, Vermont. She is a student of Shinzen Young.
Lama Rod Owens
Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor and authorized Lama, or Buddhist teacher, in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered one of the leaders of his generation of Buddhist teachers. He holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of <em>Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation</em>. Owens is the co-founder of Bhumisparsha, a Buddhist tantric practice and study community. Has been published in <em>Buddhadharma,</em> <em>Lion’s Roar</em>, <em>Tricycle</em> and <em>The Harvard Divinity </em><em>Bulletin</em>, and offers talks, retreats and workshops in more than seven countries.
Matthew Bortolin
Matthew Bortolin has camped out for tickets to all the Star Wars movies, and a set of Jedi robes hangs in his closet. He is an ordained member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, and has lived in Buddhist monasteries both in the United States and abroad. He lives in Ventura, California.
Josh Bartok
Josh Bartok (Keido Mu'nen) is the abbot (head teacher and spiritual director) at the Greater Boston Zen Center. He is a Dharma heir of James Ishmael Ford Roshi in both of the roshi's lineages: the ordained Soto Zen lineage of Jiyu Kennett, and the koan introspection lineage of John Tarrant.
Megan Rundel
Megan Rundel is the resident teacher at the Crimson Gate Meditation Community in Oakland, California.
Jenny Phillips
Jenny Phillips is the director and producer of the documentary film, <em>The Dhamma Brothers</em>, about the impact of vipassana meditation courses on the lives of inmates in a maximum-security prison in Alabama.
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Thinley Norbu Rinpoche (1931-2011) was an important modern teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the eldest son of Dudjom Rinpoche, the former head of the Nyingma school, and also the father of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche and Dungse Garab Rinpoche. Thinley Norbu Rinpoche was considered to be an emanation of the 14th-century Nyingma master Longchempa. He wrote many books including <em> A Cascading Waterfall of Nectar </em>, <em>White Sail</em>, and <em>The Small Golden Key </em>.
Samuel Bercholz
Samuel Bercholz is the founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications. He studied with Thinley Norbu Rinpoche for more than two decades, and has been teaching Buddhism and the Shambhala teachings for nearly four decades.
Sangye Khandro
Sangye Khandro has served as a translator for many prominent masters, including Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, and is one of the founders of Light of Berotsana Translation Group. A longtime practitioner of Vajrayana, she studied with Thinley Norbu and his father, Dudjom Rinpoche, her root teacher.
Rick Tetzeli
Rick Tetzeli, executive editor of Fast Company, has covered technology for two decades. He is the former deputy editor of Fortune, and editor of Entertainment Weekly.
Brent Schlender
Brent Schlender is one of the premiere chroniclers of the personal computer revolution, writing about every major figure and company in the tech industry. He covered Steve Jobs for the Wall Street Journal and Fortune for nearly 25 years.
Bhikkhuni Sudhamma
Sudhamma Bhikkhuni from Charlotte, North Carolina is the first American woman ordained in Sri Lanka and has been recognized at the United Nations in Bangkok as an "Outstanding Woman in Buddhism." She was ordained as a novice by her teacher Bhante H. Gunaratana and became a bhikkhuni in 2003. She was abbess of the Charlotte Buddhist Vihara.
Jitindriya
Jitindriya (Loraine Keats) was a nun for seventeen years in the Ajahn Chah/Ajahn Sumedho Forest tradition. She took ordination in Britain as a novice in 1988 and as a siladhara in 1990. After leaving the monastic order, she earned a master’s degree in Buddhist psychotherapy and now lives in New South Wales, Australia, where she has a clinical practice in Buddhist psychotherapy.