Archives: Authors
Lilian Cheung
Dr. Lilian Cheung is a Lecturer, Director of Health Promotion & Communication, and Editorial Director of The Nutrition Source website at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition.
Esther Brandon
Esther Brandon has practiced yoga and mindfulness meditation for 35 years. After retiring from Lesley University in 2012, Esther completed the Yoga 4 Classrooms® Licensure Program for Trainers, and she is in training to become a CARE (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education) facilitator. She has begun presenting an introduction to CARE for the Yoga 4 Classrooms IMPLEMENT™ Leader Training program focused on empowering schools to use teaming and in-school leaders to sustainably integrate yoga and mindfulness school wide.
Laura Munson
Laura Munson is the author of This Is Not the Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness.
Michael O’Keefe
Michael O'Keefe is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated actor. He's appeared in the films Eye In the Sky, Michael Clayton, Frozen River, The Pledge, Ironweed, The Great Santini, and Caddyshack. Television audiences will recognize him as CIA Agent John Redmond on Homeland. His writing has appeared in BOMB, Mindful, and other magazines. A practitioner of Zen for almost thirty years, he is a Dharma Holder in the Zen Peacemaker Order.
Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is the creator of the public radio show and podcast On Being, a National Humanities medalist, and the author of the forthcoming book Becoming Wise.
Evelyn C. White
Evelyn C. White lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is the author of Alice Walker: A Life.
Ellen-Marie Silverman
A mindfulness meditation practitioner since 1996, Ellen-Marie Silverman has found mindfulness useful in resolving her long-standing stuttering problem. A speech pathologist, she described her experience in the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Stuttering-Eastern-Strategies-Greater/dp/1478385111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457120843&sr=1-1&keywords=mindfulness+%26+stuttering"><em>Mindfulness & Stuttering</em></a>, published in 2012. In 2016, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/winning-novel-Ellen-Marie-Silverman/dp/1519776268/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457120968&sr=1-1&keywords=stuttering+lgbt"><em>winning</em></a>,” a young adult novel, the second in The Jason Trilogy she is writing, was published. The series portrays the effect of a stuttering problem on one person’s life from age 10 to age 50. Ellen-Marie Silverman, a poet, lives in the United States near the Lake Michigan shore.
Lilly Greenblatt
Lilly Greenblatt is the digital editor of LionsRoar.com. You can find more about her at <a href="http://www.lillygreenblatt.com">lillygreenblatt.com</a>
Robert Langan
Robert Langan is a psychoanalyst and longtime Buddhist practitioner. He is the author of <em>Minding What Matters: Psychotherapy and the Buddha Within</em>.
Vidyamala Burch
Vidyamala was ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1995. She is cofounder of Breathworks, which offers training in mindfulness-based management of pain and illness.