Archives: Authors

Ravi Chandra

Ravi Chandra is a blogger for Psychology Today. His documentary The Bandaged Place: From AIDS to Covid and Racial Justice won Best Film at the 2021 Cannes Independent Film Festival.

Som Pourfarzaneh

Som Pourfarzaneh is an assistant professor of Islamic and Digital Media Studies at Starr King School for the Ministry.

Keisha Bush

Keisha Bush is the author of No Heaven for Good Boys. She’s currently pursuing a master’s degree in theology at Harvard Divinity School.

Reiko Ohnuma

Reiko Ohnuma is the author of Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature and Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination.

Dr. g (Claudelle R. Glasgow), Psy.D., SEP, NEDA Proficient (doc/we) is a multi-hyphenate serving as healing artist, writer, and educator. Dr. g’s work has been supported by fellowships and craft shops through Hugo House, VONA, The Watering Hole, Hurston/Wright, Anaphora, and RWW. Their chapbook the Devils that raised Us was longlisted at Frontier Poetry in 2022. Dr. g's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Killens Review, Black Lawrence Press, Moko: Caribbean Arts & Letters, Rigorous Magazine, & Obsidian Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. With nearly 20 years as a healing artist, their work is emergent & grounded in a radical existential-somatic approach, which works with the power of the here & now, somatics, creativity & liberation. Doc supports the global majority in addressing grief, liminal space, and intergenerational and ancestral traumas. Stay informed of Dr. g’s offerings, sign up for their newsletter at <a href="https://www.claudelleglasgow.com">https://www.claudelleglasgow.com</a> and follow on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/garudagrin/">@garudagrin</a>.

Brian Lesage

Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition in 1996. His training in Vipassana Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, and India as well as numerous retreats in the U.S. He leads retreats and teaches meditation courses nationwide. You can also visit his website for more information at: <a title="https://liberatingawareness.com/" href="https://liberatingawareness.com/" rel="noopener">liberatingawareness.com</a>

Judy Yushin Nakatomi

Judy Yushin Nakatomi, (she/we) is a mother, kin, writer, and community cultivator. She practices in her root, ancestral tradition, Jodo Shinshu and is ordained in the Zen community of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Wes Nisker

Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator, Buddhist meditation teacher, a bestselling author, and a standup Dharma comic who has been described in the New York Times as “masterful at using humor to lighten the enlightenment journey.” He was the founder and co-editor of the Buddhist journal “Inquiring Mind,” and for the past 40 years has been leading retreats and workshops in Buddhist Insight Meditation and philosophy at venues internationally. Two of his <a href="https://wesnisker.com/books/">classic books</a> are being reissued in new editions: <a href="https://www.innertraditions.com/books/being-nature/">Being Nature: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness</a> (Inner Traditions, November 2022) and The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of My Generation (Monkfish Book Publishing Co., June 2023).

Cinthia Font

Cinthia Font is a translator and interpreter, fluent in seven languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, English, Catalan, and Tibetan. She teaches Tibetan language in various university programs and does oral and written translation for dharma communities around the world, primarily for the Spanish-speaking students of Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche. To learn more about Cinthia and her work visit <a href="http://drayang.com/">drayang.com</a>

Santiago Santai Jiménez

Santiago Santai Jiménez is a Colombian Zen monk and co-founder of the Centro Integral Colombia. Santiago is also a multi-instrumentalist musician, music producer, and industrial engineer. Santiago's approach to dharma integrates the gradual and sudden approaches to awakening, combining the systematic development of the mind found in some Buddhist traditions, with the immediate realization that is characteristic of some forms of Zen. He has worked in different countries with individuals and groups ranging from indigenous tribes to multinational executives, sometimes in the same setting.