Oct 13th, 2024 EHC Online Sangha with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Marisela Gomez

Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma 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 activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, 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.
Marisela B. Gomez is a dharma teacher in the Thich Nhat Hanh Order of Interbeing, a dharma practitioner for more than 20 years. Her practice focuses on mindfulness in everyday everything. This includes her work as a public health scholar activist, physician, and solidarity economy organizer. Of Afro-Latina ancestry, she/they lives in Baltimore. She co-authored Healing our Way Home and authored Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore as well she has numerous book chapters, popular and scholarly publications. She blogged on the intersection of spirituality and justice at Huff Post (www.huffington...) and on the intersection of community rebuilding, wisdom justice and health mariselabgomez.com. For a TedTalk on healing racism through waking up • Overcoming Racism for ...