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Zen Master Bernie Glassman
Founder
Spiritual Director
President
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
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Sensei Eve Myonen Marko
Head Teacher
Mother House Zendo
Montague Farm Zendo
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. |
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Karen Kisui Werner
Zen House Director
Montague Farm Zen House
Karen Kisui Werner, Ph.D., is a sociologist and community activist living in Montague, MA. Her research, teaching, and activism focus on social welfare and community economies. She co-founded the North Quabbin Time Bank, a community currency based in Orange, MA. Karen has been on the faculty of Goddard College for 8 years and has degrees from Brown, Harvard, and Brandeis. She has been practicing zen at the Montague Farm Zendo with Sensei Eve Myonen Marko since 2006. |
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Ari Pliskin
Assistant to President
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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Jessica Bruno
Bookkeeper
Jessica is the bookkeeper for the Zen Peacemakers. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Southern Vermont College and majored in Accounting and Environmental Studies. She has worked as an accountant for over 10 years gaining experience in corporate, public, and non-profit sectors. In 2007, she started her own business, ACT Solutions- Accounting, Computer and Tax Service. Some of Jessica’s interests include martial arts, entering competitive obedience competitions with her dog Kuma, and hiking in the mountains with her husband Mike. |
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Laurie Smith
Ass't to Res. Dev. Dir./Registrar
Laurie has lived in Western Massachusetts all her life. She graduated from Greenfield High School, then attended Greenfield Community College, majoring in Business Administration. She loves the outdoors, especially fishing with her husband, Scott. Laurie has a passion for weaving baskets, and she has been weaving for almost 25 years, using many different materials such as, willow, grape vine, red osier dogwood, rattan reed, and most recently waxed linen thread. |
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Tim Raines
Caretaker
Tim has lived in Massachusetts his whole life, and is married with
three children. He has done extensive work at Zen Peacemakers for a
number of years involving construction of the Maezumi Institute, general
maintenance and groundskeeping. |
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