Archives: Authors

Jason Gots

Jason Gots is the producer/host of the Think Again and Clever Creature podcasts and author of the memoir Humanity is Trying (HarperCollins).

Allyson Pimentel

Allyson Pimentel, EdD, is a psychologist and long-time practitioner of Insight Meditation. She teaches at InsightLA and is the associate director of Mindful USC.

Erika L. Sánchez is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her debut poetry collection, "Lessons on Expulsion," was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Her debut young adult novel, "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter," was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Awards finalist. It is now being made into a film directed by America Ferrera. Sanchez was a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow, a 2018 recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and a 2019 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Eda Ocak

Eda is a meditation teacher from Turkey. She has been studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism. She is currently a student in Tibet House, learning about Buddhist Philosophy. Since studying the Dharma, she's wanted to hear more Buddhist women's voices. She is currently researching women ancestors in Buddhist history.

Angelica Paljor

Angélica Paljor is a Colombian-American journalist and translator-in-training of Buddhist classical texts from Tibetan into Spanish and English.

Monica Jordan

Monica is a spiritual counselor and an educator in the mental health space. She holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) and a master’s Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Teaching (MCMBT) from Johns Hopkins University. Monica has been practicing mindfulness for over 22 years and served as the Spanish Program Coordinator and Editor for Tara Brach’s Dharma Talks and Meditations for the Spanish-speaking world. To learn more about her and what she offers, visit her website embracemindfulness.org

Carola Roloff (Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen)

Dr. Carola Roloff (Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedroen) is a permanent visiting professor of Buddhism and Dialogue in Modern Societies at the Academy of World Religions of the University of Hamburg. From 2010 she led a DFG research project on Buddhist nuns’ ordination, and is author of <em>The Buddhist Nun’s Ordination in the Tibetan Canon, Possibilities Of The Revival of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Bhikṣuṇī Lineage</em>. She received śrāmaṇerikā ordination at Tibetan Centre Hamburg in 1981 and bhikṣuṇī ordination at Miao-T'ung Monastery, Taiwan in 1985.

Rhonda Magee

Rhonda Magee is a law professor at the University of San Fran- cisco, an author, and a mindfulness teacher. Her work focuses on integrating mindfulness-based interventions, awareness, and compassion practices from a range of traditions into higher education, law, and social change work. She is the author of <em>The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.</em>

Margarita Loinaz

Margarita Loinaz is a community teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland and a visiting teacher at Spirit Rock. She began teaching in 1997 and co-organized the first People of Color Retreat at Spirit Rock in 1999. A student of both the Theravada and Tibetan traditions, her teaching integrates Dzogchen practice with social justice and environmental awareness.

Carol Iwata

Carol Iwaya first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in the late sixties after reading books by Ram Dass and Alan Watts. When she returned to the US, she looked into various meditation centers and eventually found her community in St. Paul, Minnesota, at Clouds in Water Zen Center. Within both her sangha and her city, she has worked with and for BIPOC communities in applying spiritual practice toward the work of social and racial justice.