The Columbia Law School Mindfulness Program invites you to special meditation and discussion, free and open to the public, featuring New York Times best-selling author and teacher, Sharon Salzberg, hosted by Professor Kendall Thomas, discussing Salzberg’s recently released book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and Our World.
To access the live-stream of this session, please follow this link.
Sharon Salzberg is a pioneer in the field of meditation, a world-renowned teacher, and New York Times best-selling author. She has played a pivotal role bringing meditation and mindfulness into mainstream American culture since 1974, with her down-to-earth and relatable teaching style that offers a secular, modern approach to Buddhist teachings, making them instantly accessible. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, MA and has authored 10 books, including the New York Times best-seller, Real Happiness (2017).
Kendall Thomas is a scholar of comparative constitutional law and human rights whose teaching and research focus on critical race theory, intersectionality, legal philosophy, feminist legal theory, and law and sexuality. Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School, where he leads interdisciplinary projects and programs that explore how the law operates as one of the central ways to create meaning in society. He is a founder of Amend the 13th, a movement to amend the U.S. Constitution to end enforced prison labor. His seminal writing on the intersection of race and law appears in Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Founded the Movement (1996), which he co-edited. He is also a co-editor of Legge Razza Diritti: La Critical Race Theory negli Stati Uniti (2005) and What's Left of Theory? (2000). He also has written and spoken widely on the impact of AIDS and was a founding member of the Majority Action Caucus of ACT UP, Sex Panic!, and the AIDS Prevention Action League. A former board member of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, he now serves on the board of the NYC AIDS Memorial. Thomas is also a professional jazz vocalist who performs at venues including Joe’s Pub and is on the board of advisors of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition.
