I'm inspired to help others cultivate wonder, insight, and resilience, and have been blessed to work toward this end as an interfaith chaplain, spiritual life director, and meditation teacher. Currently, I work as a chaplain with Baystate Hospice. From 2018-2025 I served as Director of Religious and Spiritual Life at Amherst College. Before that, I was Director of Religious and Spiritual Life & Campus Chaplain at Emerson College for almost 2 years across 2017-2018. From 2013-2016 I served as the Buddhist Spiritual Advisor and Mindfulness Program Director at Northeastern University, as well as Staff Chaplain at Franciscan Children's, where I taught mindfulness meditation to adolescent patients on an acute psychiatric unit.

 

I received a master of divinity, focused on Buddhist ministry, from Harvard Divinity School, and a master of education from Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning Program. I was a Board Certified Chaplain from 2013-2021 and was authorized in 2012 as a Community Dharma Leader in the Insight Meditation tradition of Theravada Buddhism. Across my work, I am committed to increasing mindfulness equity—equal access to mindfulness training across potential barriers based on race or class. Venues at which I have presented on mindfulness equity and Buddhist chaplaincy include Oxford University, Harvard's Medical and Divinity Schools, and the International Symposium for Contemplative Studies. I am the Editor of Dancing with Dharma: Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism (McFarland, 2016).

Groups or venues for which I have offered workshops, meditations, papers, posters, or lectures include:

 

UNIVERSITIES

  • Amherst College
    • Acceptable Prejudice: Age, Aging, Ageism (Political Science 239)
    • How to Do Nothing (English First Year Seminar)
  • Brandeis University (Sociology of Religion class)
  • Emerson College
  • Episcopal Divinity School (Table-Talk Series)
  • Hartford International University for Religion & Peace (University Chaplaincy class)
  • Harvard Divinity School
    • Buddhism, Culture, and Diversity class
    • Arts of Contemplative Care class
    • Buddhist Chaplaincy: Spiritual Foundations in Caregiving Practice class
    • Buddhist Ministry Initiative 10 year anniversary celebration
  • Harvard Extension School (Mindfulness, Meaning, and Resilience class)
  • Harvard Hillel
  • Harvard Medical School (Spirituality and Healing in Medicine class)
  • Hunter College (Religious Belief and Physical Practice class)
  • MIT Buddhist Community
  • Northeastern University (Psychology and Meditation class)
  • Tufts University (Conflict! New Ways of Thinking about Life’s Challenges class)
  • UMass Amherst (Women's Bodies: Poetry, Politics and Power class)
  • Wheelock College (Visual Communications class)

CONFERENCES / ORGANIZATIONS

  • Arbour Counseling Services
  • Buddhist Ministry and Vocational Discernment Conference, Harvard Divinity School
  • Center for the Study of World Religions
  • College of Engineering Staff Retreat, Northeastern University
  • Coming Together 7: Interfaith Student Conference, Yale University
  • Cultivating Resiliency in Higher Education Chaplaincy, Harvard Divinity School
  • The Conference Board's Council on Executive Coaching
  • Conference for Advancing Evidence-Based Teaching, Northeastern University
  • Conference on Buddhism and Race in America, Harvard Divinity School
  • Conference of Buddhist Chaplains from UK and US, Oxford University
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Earthdance Retreat Center (Body-Time: A Silent Somatic Retreat)
  • Franciscan Children's (patients and staff)
  • International Symposium for Contemplative Studies
  • The Jewish Farm School
  • Mercy Medical Center, Addiction Medicine team
  • Milton Academy (African American history class)
  • New England Interfaith Student Summit, Northeastern University
  • Ploughshares publishing
  • Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo, Northeastern University
  • Teach-In on Race, Emerson College
  • Youth Climate Action Network

BUDDHIST CENTERS / HOUSES OF WORSHIP

  • Against The Stream Boston (Meditation Facilitator)
  • Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (Dharma and Arts Symposium)
  • Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England (interfaith panelist)
  • Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley (4-class series, evening talks, 1/2 day retreat)
  • Insight Meditation Society (teen retreat)
  • The Interdependence Project (1/2 day retreat)
  • Nantucket Unitarian Universalist Meeting House (delivered guest sermons)
  • New York Insight Meditation Center (1/2 day retreat)
  • Spirit Rock Meditation Center (family retreat)

Full professional resume available on request.