Archives: Authors
Lisa Ernst
Lisa Ernst is a meditation teacher, artist and founder of One Dharma Nashville. In her teaching, Lisa emphasizes both transformational insight and everyday awakening as an invitation to embrace all of the path’s possibilities. Lisa has been meditating for 30 years in the Zen and Vipassana traditions. She received dharma teaching authorization through Trudy Goodman in the Thai Forest lineage of Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield, etc.
Ralph H. Craig III
Ralph H. Craig III is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is a scholar of South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism, and he has published in the <em>Buddhist-Christian Studies</em> journal, the <em>Japanese Journal of Religious Studies</em>, and on the American Academy of Religion’s Reading Religion website.
Shahara Godfrey
Shahara Godfrey is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center and holds a PhD in Transformative Learning from California Institute of Integral Studies.
Resmaa Menakem
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance; as behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; as a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; as a certified Military and Family Life Consultant for the U.S. Armed Forces; as a trauma consultant for the Minneapolis Public Schools; and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department. As a Community Care Counselor, he managed the wellness and counseling services for civilians on fifty-three US military bases in Afghanistan. He currently teaches workshops on Cultural Somatics for audiences of African Americans, European Americans, and police officers, and is a therapist in private practice.
David Hinton
David Hinton is the translator of such seminal works as the <em>I Ching</em>, <em>Tao Te Ching</em>, and the <em>Analects of Confucius</em>. He has received numerous awards for his work, including a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent book is <em>China Root</em> (Shambhala, 2020).
Constance Kassor
Constance Kassor Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she teaches courses on Buddhist thought and Asian religious traditions, with a special interest in how Buddhism relates to questions of social justice and gender. She is the creator and voice of <em>Religious Lessons from Asia to the World</em>, a ten-part program on Audible. For more information visit <a href="http://constancekassor.net/">constancekassor.net</a>
Barbara Gates
Barbara Gates is the author of <em>Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place</em> and a founding editor of the Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind (1984–2015).
Austin Mabry
Austin Mabry is a former Buddhist monk in the Plum Village Tradition. He currently lives and practices at Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in rural New Hampshire.
Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli is an actor known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He’s also a movie director, musician, and novelist.