Archives: Authors
Ellie Krug
Ellie Krug holds degrees from Coe College and Boston College Law School and has more than 100 trials to her credit. In 2009, Ellie transitioned from male to female. She then became the only Iowa attorney, and one of the few nationally, to try jury cases in separate genders. Ellie presently works as the executive director of a nonprofit that helps connect low-income people with legal resources in the Twin Cities. Ellie lives in Minneapolis, where she is a freelance writer for two publications, including <em>Lavender Magazine</em>. Her memoir, <em>Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change</em> (Stepladder Press), was published in February 2013. Visit her online at: <a href="http://www.gettingtoellen.com">www.gettingtoellen.com</a> and <a href="http://www.elliekrug.com">www.elliekrug.com</a>.
Jules Shuzen Harris
A psychotherapist and Soto Zen priest, Jules Shuzen Harris is the founder of the Soji Zen Center in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.
Meena Srinivasan
Meena Srinivasan is a South Asian-American edupreneur with deep expertise in the fields of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mindfulness in Education. She is the Founding Executive Director of <a href="https://www.teleadership.org/">Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL)</a>. Prior to this role she spent five and a half years working in partnership with the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to implement SEL system-wide in the Oakland Unified School District. She is the creator of the <a href="https://www.meenasrinivasan.com/courses">SEL Every Day online courses</a>, and the author of <a href="https://www.meenasrinivasan.com/books"><em>Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom</em></a>. Meena is a student of the late Ramchandra Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson) and Thich Nhat Hanh. She was a contributor to Thich Nhat Hanh’s bestselling books <em>Planting Seeds </em>(Parallax Press, 2011) and<em> Happy Teachers Change the World </em>(Parallax Press, 2017). Meena also co-authored a chapter in <em>Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents </em>(American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2019). She has been ordained into the Tiep Hien Lineage (Order of Interbeing) under Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh since 2010 and has been an active member of the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism for more than 15 years.
Rev. Doug Traversa
Rev. Doug Traversa is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tullahoma, TN and is a member of the Nashville Zen Center. His church will begin hosting a Soto Zen service on Sunday nights beginning on March 29th.
Andrew Rock
Andrew Rock and his wife are committed Buddhists who live in Tampa, Florida and LaHave, Nova Scotia. They are members of the Florida Community of Mindfulness, led by their teacher Fred Eppsteiner, in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. They also practice with the South Shore Shambhala Center, in Mahone Bay.
Logan Beaudry
Logan Beaudry was introduced to Buddhism during an extended visit to Japan and since then has attended numerous retreats at Dai Bosatsu Zendo in New York’s Catskill Mountains, and the Rinzai-ji Zen Center in Los Angeles. She lives in Vermont and is working on a series of literary nonfiction essays.
Susan Moon
Susan Moon is a writer and teacher and for many years was the editor of <em>Turning Wheel</em>, the journal of socially engaged Buddhism. She is the author of <em>This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Dignity and Humor</em> and <em>The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi</em>, a humorous book about an imaginary Zen master. She edited <em>Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism</em>.
Kobutsu Malone
Kobutsu Malone, Zenji, is a Rinzai Zen priest of the Gempo-Soen-Eido lineage. He is a co-founder of The Engaged Zen Foundation, which fosters meditative practice in prisons and develops monastic alternative sentencing/post-release programs. The Engaged Zen Foundation can be contacted at Post Office Box 700, Ramsey, NJ 07446.
Scott Darnell
Scott Darnell is serving a life sentence in Lawrence Correctional Center, Sumner, Illinois. He has been incarcerated for more than 30 years. He has written several articles for this newsletter and for various Buddhist magazines. His essay called “Meeting Myself in the Cell House” was included in Best Buddhist Writing of 2005. With the assistance of volunteers from Inside Dharma and Shinzo Zen Meditation Center in St. Louis, MO, Scott participated in a Jukai ceremony at his institution and received a rakasu.
Bryant Terry
Bryant Terry is a chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. Bryant’s fourth book, <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/225436/afro-vegan-by-bryant-terry"><em>Afro Vegan</em></a> was published by Ten Speed Press/Random House April 2014. Just 2 months after publication, <em>Afro-Vegan</em> was named by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sr_aj?node=5522571011&ajr=0">Amazon.com</a> one of the best cookbooks of 2014. In December it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work category. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife, Jidan Koon, and their two daughters.