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General Information: Overview: Zen Peacemakers Board

Co-Chairperson: Dharma Holder Chris Panos

 

Co-Chairperson: Dr. Robert Simpson

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

 

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.

Rob Simpson

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.

 
 

Spiritual Director and President: Roshi Bernie Glassman

 

Secretary: Sensei Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña

Bernie Glassman

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

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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.

 

Treasurer: Dr. David Young

 

Dharma Holder James Bastien

David Young

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,

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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.

 

Anthony Cignoli

 

Sensei Sheila Jinen Hixon

Anthony Cignoli

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.

Sheila Hixon

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

 

Sensei Fleet Ryushin Maull

David Mager

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,

Fleet Maull

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

   
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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.

     

Standing Committees:

  • Executive Committee:

    • Co-Chairperson: Chris Panos
    • Co-Chairperson: Robert Simpson
    • Spiritual Director: Bernie Glassman
    • President: Bernie Glassman
    • Secretary: Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña
    • Treasurer: David Young
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  • Finance Committee:

    • Chair: Robert Simpson
    • Treasurer: David Young
    • Dylan Hixon (not a board member)
    • Francisco "Paco" Lugoviña
    • Norman Marcus (not a board member)
    • Chris Panos
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