Archives: Authors

Judy Roitman

Judy Roitman (Zen Master Bon Hae) began practicing Zen in 1976 with Zen Master Seung Sahn at the Cambridge Zen Center. Two years later, she helped found the Kansas Zen Center with, among others, her husband Stan Lombardo. She was granted authorization as a teacher (inka) in the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1998 and received dharma transmission in 2013. She has also had a long and distinguished career as a professor of mathematics (although now retired from academic life) and as a poet.

Funie Hsu

Funie Hsu, PhD, works as an assistant professor of American Studies at San Jose State University.

Pablo Das

Pablo Das is a Buddhist teacher, musician, amateur queer historian and a practitioner of somatic experiencing. He has a one-on-one coaching practice specializing in integrating Buddhist practice and principles in the resolution of trauma. He lives in Los Angeles.

Donna Rockwell

Donna Rockwell is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher living in Detroit.

Katie Letheren

Katie Letheren is a Buddhist American international aid worker currently working in the global health field in Liberia, West Africa. Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Katie attended New York University for her undergraduate degree in Political Science with a strong focus in journalism and the Middle East, and later attended Harvard School of Public Health’s Global Health Delivery Intensive program. Since then she has been bopping around the world with a cause - always letting the world’s events and the suffering it causes, no matter how painful it can be, soften her heart despite how badly it seems to want to harden it.

Carla Beharry

Carla is a devoted practitioner & teacher of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and pranayama breath work. She passionately works both in Canada and the Caribbean, where she facilitates women’s empowerment workshops. Find her at <a href="http://www.infiniteoceans.com">infiniteoceans.com</a> for training and support in rebuilding after trauma.

Charles G. Lief

Charles G. Lief is the president of Naropa University. For ten years he was the president of the Greyston Foundation in Yonkers, New York.

Richard Reoch

Richard Reoch is the former President of Shambhala. He <a href="http://richardreoch.info/">took part in the international interfaith mission</a> of witness to the Rohingya refugee camp on the Bangladesh–Myanmar border from March 26-30, 2018.

David Kaczynski

David Kaczynski is executive director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty. He and his wife Linda Patrik received national attention in 1996 when it was revealed that David’s brother, Theodore, known as the Unabomber, had been turned in by his own family.

Peter Singer

Peter Singer is a moral philosopher whose work addresses altruism, human and animal rights, economics, world poverty, and religion. He is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, and a laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Singer has authored and co-authored many books, including The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, and the seminal Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals.