Archives: Authors

Alex Rodriguez

Alex W. Rodríguez is a writer, trombonist, and organizer currently serving as General Coordinator for the Bhumisparsha sangha and as Board President for Buddhist Peace Fellowship. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, where his research focused on jazz clubs around the world and the communities that sustain them in Los Angeles, California; Santiago, Chile; and Novosibirsk, Siberia.

Ava Coulter

Ava Coulter is a summer editorial assistant at Lion’s Roar and student in the journalism program at the University of King’s College in Halifax. She has also written for <a href="https://www.thecoast.ca/">The Coast</a> and <a href="http://dalgazette.com/">The Dalhousie Gazette</a>. Check her out on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/avacoulter1">@avacoulter1</a>.

Edward Tick

Edward Tick is a writer and psychotherapist specializing in healing war trauma. He is the author of six books, including the award-winning War and the Soul and more than 150 articles. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in treating war trauma and has served as the Pentagon’s subject matter expert on post-traumatic stress disorder and moral injury. He is the director of Soldier’s Heart, Inc., a non-profit addressing PTSD and Moral Injury.

Eric Steuer

Eric Steuer is a contributing editor at Wired.

Charlene Leung

Charlene Leung is chair of the Diversity Working Group for Shambhala International and a facilitator for UNtraining, an organization devoted to healing personal and social oppressions. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her Chinese immigrant parents settled, and witnessed firsthand the discrimination and racial violence against Chinese Americans. Of dharma and diversity work, she says, "The two are inextricably linked for me." She practices Chinese medicine as a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist and teaches qigong.

Pearl McLeod

David Cotie

Jacob Davis

Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of books on feminism, Western and Indigenous history, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster.

Sophia Kamps

Sophia Kamps is a summer intern for LionsRoar.com and a student of art history and political science at McGill University. During the school year she is a staff writer at the McGill Journal of Political Studies and the McGill International Review.