Join us for a conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo about her work on transformative ways to meet life’s challenges with wisdom, resilience, and balance. Kaira Jewel has much to say about caring for yourself, for others, and our planet.

About this event

Part of our conversation will be about her book “We Were Made for These Times.” This work is full of wise, wonderful, and down-to-earth advice about dealing with upheaval, loss, crisis, and facing the unknown. She also beautifully addresses how we might think about the multiple unprecedented societal and planetary challenges we face collectively. Her work is all about helping us cultivate equanimity and joy in any circumstance.

Dan Quinlan, moderator

Dan Quinlan is the founder the non-profit SolaVida. His focus is on working with people who are passionate about making the world a more humane and healthy home for all people. His advocacy work revolves around reducing carbon pollution – through projects in advocacy, communications, and finance – mostly in collaboration with health professionals. Dan has also spent years wandering (formally and informally) around ideas about wisdom and joy – across neuroscience, psychology, wisdom traditions, philosophy, sociology, the arts and more.

Kaira Jewel Lingo, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Author & Mentor

Kaira Jewel is a senior Dharma teacher in the Plum Village Zen lineage and a Vipassana teacher, and a member of the Plum Village North American Dharma Teachers Council of Elders. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, drawing inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her father’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 and Vipassana traditions, as well as in secular mindfulness contexts. Her teaching focuses on the intersection of racial, climate, and social justice, with particular care for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities, as well as activists, artists, educators, families, and youth.

Kaira Jewel is the 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.