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About the Presenter, Chenxing Han

Chenxing Han is a leading author, speaker, and educator at the intersection of Buddhism and Asian America.Trained in Buddhist studies and chaplaincy, she is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists and one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care. Her writing is taught in university, seminary, and high school classrooms across the nation.

Chenxing has given talks, workshops, and retreats at over a hundred communities and institutions, including Chautauqua, Duke, Emory, UC Berkeley, Spirit Rock, and the San Francisco Zen Center. Educated at Stanford University, the Graduate Theological Union, and the Institute of Buddhist Studies, she has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Hemera Foundation, and the University of Michigan.

As a founder of Roots and Refuge, May We Gather, and Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard, Chenxing strives to cultivate spaces for creative inquiry, spiritual kinship, and intergenerational learning. She is currently at work on a treasury of Buddhist Asian America and a nonet of essays on practice and play.

Note: the youtube video Chenxing refers to in her talk can be found at the following link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCoOmTMNcBo

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