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Founder, President and Spiritual Director: Roshi Bernie Glassman Bernie Glassman is a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen Movement and a leading creative figure in socially engaged Buddhism. He is the founder and co-spiritual director of the Zen Peacemakers. He has extended Dharma practice from the meditation hall to the arenas of social service, business, environmental stewardship and conflict resolution. He has been honored with numerous ethics, service and achievement awards. |
![]() Chairperson and Tresurer: Dharma Holder Chris Panos Chris Panos, a Dharma Holder in the Zen Peacemakers, is currently a founder and principal of Fundamental Investment Advisors. Over the past 25 years, he has founded several other successful businesses. Chris founded the Bay Area Peacemaker Circle, has been extensively involved with Tibetan refugees, and serves as Board President of Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. |
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Secretary: Sensei Eve Myonen Marko Eve Myonen Marko is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and currently the resident teacher at the Montague Farm Zendo, the Motherhouse Zendo of the Zen Peacemakers. With her husband and teacher, Roshi Bernie Glassman, she co-founded Peacemaker Circle International, which linked and trained spiritually-based social activists and peacemakers around the world. During that time she helped develop coalitions of Civil Society activists in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. During the 1980s she worked in the Greyston Mandala, a Buddhist-inspired network of for-profits and not-for-profits in Yonkers, New York. She was a long-time member of the Zen Community of New York, which founded the Greyston Mandala organizations in Yonkers, New York. She was critical in the organization’s progress and developed resources and funding for Greyston Family Inn and Greyston Foundation. |
![]() Dharma Holder James Daikan Bastien Jim worked for 17 years at Father Flanagan’s Girls and Boys Town, in Boys Town, Nebraska. In 1990, Jim founded Girls and Boys Town of New England. Jim has served as the Director of Child and Adolescent Residential Services for McLean Hospital, Director of Family-Based Services for the Northeast Center for Youth and Families, Executive Director
of the Kolbourne School, Senior Administrator at Alternative
Behavioral Services, and Vice President of Residential Services at
Brightside for Families and Children. |
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Sensei William Jikai Greenberg Bill is a Zen Teacher and Priest and President of the Board of Directors of High Mountain Crystal Lake Zen Community. He is a psychiatrist, a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Medical School (1978) and Psychiatry Residency Training Program (1982). He has had an active career in clinical, academic and research psychiatry, the Training Director of the Bergen Pines Psychiatry Residency Program from 1997-2000, has authored scholarly publications and been the recipient of several awards, including the 1996 Psychiatrist Recognition Award from the New Jersey Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He is the leader of a Spirituality and Psychotherapy Study Group, a member of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on Religion, Spirituality and Psychotherapy, and the Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the NYU School of Medicine, and Director of the Outpatient Research Program at Nathan Kline Psychiatric Research Institute in Orangeburg, New York. |
![]() Sensei Sheila Jinen Hixon
Sheila Jinen Hixon is a Zen Teacher and a Founding
Multi-Faith Peacemaker in the Zen Peacemakers.
She has been a guiding force in the Zen Peacemakers
and has played a major role in the development and
planning for the House of One People in Montague
Massachusetts. |
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![]() Sensei Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña
Francisco "Paco" Genkoji Lugoviña is a Buddhist priest
and founder of the Hudson River Peacemaker Center
- House of One People in Yonkers. |
![]() Sensei Fleet Ryushin Maull
Fleet Maull, M.A., Ph.D. candidate, was a senior student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and is an ordained priest and Sensei (Zen Teacher) in the Zen Peacemakers. Fleet currently serves as the Director for Peacemaker Community Colorado and Co-Director of Colorado Peacemaker Institute.
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![]() Kathe McKenna is Executive Director of Haley House, Boston, which has been serving the poor and indigent for 40 years. Haley House has a residential staff and provides free food at its South End soup kitchen, and operates low-income housing, a quality bakery and a café. |
At Wesleyan University, Ari completed an interdisciplinary social studies program. He recruited for Teach For America, managed a team of canvassers campaigning to defeat George W. Bush in 2004 and directed a new residential academic summer camp for three summers. After teaching, Ari spent most of the next two years in South America, exploring Argentina. In addition to participating in local Catholic events and Andean gatherings, he stayed at a Hindu ashram and also lived in a Zen temple. Returning to the United States, Ari attended and graduated from the Zen House Seminary and then completed his internship at the Haley House in Boston, where he helped introduce meditation practice to the community. |
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![]() Christopher S. Queen, PhD is Lecturer on the Study of Religion and the Dean of Students and Alumni Relations for Continuing Education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He earned degrees in the history and phenomenology of religion from Oberlin College, Union Theological Seminary, and Boston University. His publications include Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, with Charles Prebish and Damien Keown), Engaged Buddhism in the West (Wisdom, 2000); American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship (Curzon, 1999, with Duncan Ryuken Williams); and Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia (SUNY, 1996, with Sallie B. King). He is working on a book profiling the Indian Dalit ("untouchable") followers of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, who have converted to Buddhism since 1956, and a critical study of Ambedkar and the sources of socially engaged Buddhism. |
![]() Sensei Alan Hozan Senauke Alan is a Soto Zen priest and teacher in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He was ordained by Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1989. Alan is Vice-Abbot of Berkeley Zen Center in California. From early 1991 through the end of 2001, Alan was Executive Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Alan is one of the founders of Think Sangha, a group of Buddhist-activist intellectuals and writers. He continues to work as a social activist around national and international issues of peace, human rights, structural violence, and the development of a Socially Engaged Buddhism. In another realm, Alan has been a student and performer of American traditional music for nearly 40 years. |
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