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
Dr. Robert E. Simpson, Jr., DSW, MPH has had a long
and distinguished career in healthcare as a clinician,
educator and administrator. He is serving as the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Retreat Healthcare in Brattleboro, Vermont, a not-for-profit
mental health and addictions treatment center.
Board President of Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco.
He
has been a lead administrator at many other major
hospitals in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Zen Master (Roshi) 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
Francisco "Paco" Genkoji Lugoviña is a Buddhist priest
and founder of the Hudson River Peacemaker Center
- House of One People in Yonkers.
Paco has launched several successful housing
development businesses since 1968. Paco served as
Chairman of the State of New York Mortgage Agency,
was Bank Regulator on the New York State Banking Board for
resolution. He
has been honored with numerous ethics, service and
achievement awards. His spiritual successors include
dharma teachers, Zen priests, preceptors and entrepreneurs,
Christian clergy, Rabbis, Sufi Sheiks and multi-faith peacemakers.
nine years, and was Chairman of the National Hispanic Housing
Coalition. He is a founder of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and
served on numerous business, philanthropic, arts and service
organization Boards.
David W. Young is an Emeritus Professor of
Management at Boston University’s School of
Management, and has been a faculty member for the
past 29 years at Harvard University’s School of Public
Health. He has been the lead faculty member for the
past three years in the Alliance for Academic Internal
Medicine -
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,
Merck Executive Leadership Program.
Professor Young
served a 3-year term as a Gubernatorial-appointed
commissioner and chair of the Massachusetts Hospital Payment
System Advisory Commission.
Professor Young has authored several seminal texts, received numerous academic and business honors and is an internationally sought visiting professor and organizational consultant.
Executive Director
of the Kolbourne School, Senior Administrator at Alternative
Behavioral Services, and Vice President of Residential Services at
Brightside for Families and Children.
He has published numerous research articles, has presented at
national, regional and local human service conferences, and has
served on numerous child welfare, mental health and educational
boards.
Some of Tony’s corporate clients include and have
included: Hilton Hotels, El Paso Energy Ventures,
Berkshire Physicians and Surgeons, RedFlex Traffic
Systems, Bally’s, AT&T, Verizon, The Sisters of Providence Health
Systems, Tennessee Gas, Aspen Reality, Six Flags New England,
Mass Mutual and Peter Pan Bus Lines, The Dewey Square Group
and Bally International. Personal public relations and advance services have
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.
She serves on the board of Tricycle and her family’s charitable foundation.
included work for: Muhammad Ali, Bob Hope, Curtis Jackson - aka 50 Cent, The New England Patriots, Tipper Gore, Al Gore (environmental work), President Bill Clinton and numerous members of the U. S. Congress and the governors of several states.
Tony is a veteran of many political campaigns. He served on Springfield’s Racial Balance Committee and as an elected member of the Hampden County Charter Commission
David Mager is a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
who was one of the organizers of the first Earth Day.
In the intervening 38 years, he has worked with
hundreds of large public companies to help them
profitably become "greener," including General Motors,
General Electric, IBM, and numerous others.
He is a lead auditor,
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.
Fleet is the founder of two national organizations,
representing the US at the UN, helping
develop
standards forEnvironmental Management Systems, and was
Director of Environmental Standards at Green Seal. Enamored
with the Roshi's ‘Franciscan' style of Buddhist activism, David
has been a supporter of Roshi Bernie since the early days of the
Greyston Foundation in Yonkers.
Prison Dharma Network and the National Prison Hospice Association, which promote contemplative spirituality and compassionate end-of-life care for inmates. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Naropa University. In addition, he works as a management consultant and executive coach.
Roshi Gerry Shishin Wick is President and Spiritual
Leader of Great Mountain Zen Center. He became a
Dharma Successor of Taizan Maezumi Roshi in 1990.
Gerry has worked as University Professor, science
writer, journalist,
oceanographer, software developer,
and technical manager. He is adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Naropa University, where he leads frequent
classes and retreats. He is the author of books and numerous
articles on Buddhism, physics and oceanography.