May We Gather 2024
People
Ritual Leader
Master E-Man
Father Tao-In, also known as Master E-Man, of First Taoism Foundation, is a practicing Daoist priest in the United States. He has performed ceremonial rituals in remembrance of acts of violence directed toward the Chinese community in America, in sites such as the Los Angeles County Crematorium and in Hells Canyon near Lewiston, Idaho. Master E-Man will join us in Antioch to conduct a Daoist ceremony of honoring, mourning, and healing. He lives in Arcadia, California.
Dharma Speakers
sujatha baliga
sujatha baliga (she/open to they) is a restorative justice practitioner and secular meditation instructor who grounds these endeavors in her Tibetan/Gelugpa Buddhist study and practice.
Ven. Dr. Longyun SHI
Ven. Dr. Longyun Shi has been a fully ordained Buddhist nun for thirty years. She is a board certified advanced interfaith chaplain and preceptor at Stanford Health Care, and is founder of American Bodhi Sea Buddhist Association.
Arisika Razak
Arisika Razak is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center (Oakland California). She has worked in a variety of human and civil rights struggles for over sixty years. Weaving social justice and somatic arts together, she has also performed with Purple Moon Dance Project’s “When Dreams Were Interrupted,” a dance and oral history project based on narratives of survivors of the Japanese internment camps in the USA.
Rev. Grace Song
Rev. Grace (Sangjin) Song is an ordained Won Buddhist Kyomu and Chair of the Won Buddhist Studies Department at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies.
Rev. Liên Shutt
Rev. Liên Shutt (she/they) is the Guiding Teacher of Access to Zen, an inclusive, anti-oppression sangha and nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Jee Suthamwanthanee
Jee Suthamwanthanee (she/her) is an anti-violence advocate at the San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter where she has worked since 1991. Jee is a lay Buddhist practitioner in the Thai Theravada tradition.