Dr. Jan Willis A Multimedia Exploration of Race & Racism through a Buddhist Lens October 19, 2019, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Centilia Cultural Center, El Centro de la Raza 1660 S Roberto Maestas Festival St, Seattle, WA 98144 How does Buddhist meditation practice help us to recognize our racial (and other) biases, both within ourselves, and structurally, as a society? How can it help us to dismantle these often subtle, but deeply rooted obstacles to creating a peace and happiness accessible to all? Please join us for this special opportunity to explore these questions and more, with long time activist, scholar, professor, and Buddhist practitioner, Dr. Jan Willis. In conversation, ex- ercises, group activities, and meditation, we will uncover new answers that deepen our under- standing, fueling enlightened activism for change at all levels, from the individual to the col- lective. Also featured will be a screening of the film, "I Am Not Your Negro", written by James Baldwin. Registration Information: Please visit our website: dharmafriendship.org. Jan Willis is Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at Wesleyan University and Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Geor- gia. She is one of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Bud- dhism, having studied Buddhism with Tibetan teachers for more than forty years. She discovered dharma as a path to healing the trauma of racism growing up in the segregated south, and has forged paths for the integration of Buddhism and social and political justice. She is the author of the memoir Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist (2001) and scholarly and popular works on Buddhist meditation, hagiography, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. She has been on short lists and profiled by Time, Ebony, and Newsweek. DharmaFriendship.org .