Archives: Authors
Jan Willis
Jan Willis is a Professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University as well as a visiting professor at Agnes Scott College. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the U.S. for five decades, and has taught courses in Buddhism almost as long. Her work has explored meditation, hagiography, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race; her most recent book is <em>Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra</em>.
An Olive Branch
An Olive Branch is a Buddhist-inspired organization that helps communities resolve conflicts and design ethical governance procedures. It is directed by Kyoki Roberts, Katheryn Wiedman, and Leslie Hospodar. Visit <a href="http://www.an-olive-branch.org/" title="An Olive Branch">an-olive-branch.org</a> for more information.
Gina Sharpe
Gina Sharpe was born in Jamaica and immigrated to New York as a child. After successful careers in government, the motion picture industry, philanthropy, and law, she cofounded New York Insight Meditation Center in 1997, where she led its People of Color sangha and served as its guiding teacher until 2017. A member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, she led, with Larry Yang, Lila Kate Wheeler, and Rachel Bagby, the most diverse dharma teacher training in Spirit Rock's history, which was completed in September.
Chris Malcomb
Chris Malcomb lives in Berkeley, California. His essays have appeared in periodicals such as <em>The Sun, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Narrative, Common Ground, Under the Sun, Teachers & Writers, </em>and<em> Under the Gum Tree</em>. He has led workshops for the Prison University Project at San Quentin and the Bay Area Teacher Training Institute, and he is the founder of The Mindful Writer, which offers classes and coaching in mindfulness and creative writing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more and read other works at <a title="Mindful Writer" href="http://www.mindfulwriter.org">www.mindfulwriter.org</a>.
Taz Tagore
Taz Tagore is cofounder of the Reciprocity Foundation and has spent nearly twenty years volunteering at youth shelters and working with homeless youth in the U.S., Canada, and India. She lives in New York City, where she tries hard to practice meditation amid the sound of jackhammers, her homeless students’ phones ringing, and her five-year-old daughter’s endless stream of knock-knock jokes.
Joanna Macy
PhD, teacher and author, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, Macy has created a ground-breaking framework for personal and social change that brings a new way of seeing the world as our larger body. Macy received a BA from Wellesley College in 1950 and a PhD in Religion from Syracuse University in 1978. She continues to write and teach in Berkeley, California. Her most recent book is <i>A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times </i>(ed. Stephanie Kaza). To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.joannamacy.net/" rel="noopener">www.joannamacy.net</a>.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker's poems, novels, and short stories deal with themes of violence, isolation, troubled relationships, multi-generational perspectives, sexisim and racism.
Rob Preece
Rob Preece is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher living in England. He is the author of <em>The Wisdom of Imperfection</em> (Snow Lion) and <em>Feeling Wisdom</em> (Shambhala).
Pamela Rubin
Pamela Rubin is a women’s trauma counselor, lawyer, and consultant on women’s access to justice. She is also a member of the Shambhala community and curates a blog, <a href="http://sunflowervoices.ca/" title="Sunflower Voices">SunFlowerVoices.ca</a>, on establishing a woman-positive society.
Grace Schireson
Grace Schireson is president of Shogaku Zen Institute (a Zen teachers’ training seminary) and a clinical psychologist. She played a key role in drafting the Zen Women ancestors Document, along with Jiko Sallie Tisdale, Peter Levitt, and Zoketsu norman Fischer.
Lama Tsultrim Allione
Lama Tsultrim Allione is the founder of the Tara Mandala retreat center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and author of <em>Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons</em>. In 1970 she became one of the first American women to be ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She was a 2009 recipient of the Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award.
Brad Warner
A Soto Zen priest, Brad Warner is a punk bassist, filmmaker, Japanese-monster-movie-marketer, and popular blogger. He is the author of Hardcore Zen, Sit Down and Shut Up, and Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate.
Hozan Alan Senauke
Hozan Alan Senauke is vice-abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in California, where he lives with his family. As a socially engaged Buddhist activist, Alan has worked closely with Buddhist Peace Fellowship and the International Network of Engaged Buddhists since 1991. In 2007 he founded Clear View Project, developing Buddhist-based resources for relief and social change in Asia and the United States.
Matt Bieber
Matt Bieber is a freelance writer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He writes about obsessions, personal and political.
Jan Chozen Bays
Jan Chozen Bays Roshi is co-abbot of Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is the author of <em>Mindful Eating</em> and <em>How to Train a Wild Elephant.</em>
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel has been a student of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche for almost forty years. Founder of the non-profit The Middle Way Initiative, she is also the host and creator of the Open Question podcast and the author of <em>The Power of an Open Question</em> and <em>The Logic of Faith</em>.