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Kaira Jewel Lingo is a teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and activists, as well as artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. Her teachings and writings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.
our host
Reuben Walker is the Director of Prospect Research and Strategy at Columbia Law School, where he has been a member of the Alumni Relations and Development team for 7 years. He has worked in prospect development at Columbia University for 20 years, providing donor intelligence for institutional advancement and developing comprehensive fundraising strategies. He is a member of the board of directors of APRA Greater New York and an advisory board member of Baldwin for the Arts, a nonprofit organization that fosters the artistic growth of BIPOC artists through an artist residency program in Upstate New York.
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