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Adam Tebbe, Senior Editor
Adam Tebbe is senior editor at Sweeping Zen and founder of Kannonji Zen Retreat in Second Life, a sangha which hosts events from Buddhist clergy using the virtual technology of Second Life. He trained to become a licensed chemical dependency counselor but found that he wanted to pursue work at this website. He generally keeps his opining to his blog. Adam also does some news gathering for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, owned by the Shambhala Sun Foundation.
Catherine Spaeth, Editor
Catherine Seigen Spaeth is a student of Jion Susan Postal and Myozan Dennis Keegan of the Empty Hand Zen Center in New Rochelle, New York. She is also an historian and critic of contemporary art, currently teaching at Purchase College and the Pratt Institute. She has written for many publications, academic and popular alike, and has most recently been curating the Sweetcake Enso art exhibits and website, by and for sangha.
Nancy Thompson, Editor
Nancy Thompson became a student and practitioner of Buddhism after a “Yoga Body/Buddha Mind” workshop led by Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern. She came to the Interdependence Project after seeing that David’s son Ethan Nichtern, the founder and executive director of the Interdependence Project and a shastri in the Shambhala tradition, wrote a book, “One City,” which resonated with her own view. Nancy studies with Shastri Nichtern, as well as Matthew Brensilver of Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society and Sarah Powers of the Insight Yoga Institute.
Website: The Interdependence Project
Ivan Mayerhofer, Editor
Kusa Ivan Mayerhofer is a student in the Maitreya Buddhist Seminary with the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom (founded by Ven. Samu Sunim). He started practicing at the Ann Arbor Zen Temple while completing his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He now lives in Colorado where he sits with Buddhist groups of many traditions.
Tom Hawkins, Editor
Tom Hawkins is a Soto Zen student who lives in the Central Valley of California. Tom practices with the Valley Heartland Zen Group, and received lay ordination from Myoan Grace Schireson in 2011. He is the coordinator for the Modesto Zen Buddhist Recovery Group, is an exhibiting photographic artist, and an olive farmer.
Sites
http://modestozen.org/
http://emptynestzendo.org/
http://zenwomen.org/
http://mtdiablozen.com/
http://www.tomhawkinsphotographs.com/