Emergent Dharma: Asian American Feminist Buddhists on Practice, Identity, and Resistance

Sharon A. Suh, Ph.D., is an intersectional feminist scholar and practitioner of Buddhism focusing on the intersections of religion, race, gender, trauma, and embodiment. She has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University and an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. She has published widely in these areas and has received several trauma-informed certifications in mindfulness, yoga, and somatic healing modalities that she uses to lead workshops for faculty, staff, students, and the public on healing race-based trauma through mindfulness at national conferences, universities, and religious organizations throughout the country. She is author of Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender & Community in a Korean American Temple (University of Washington Press, 2004); Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism in Asian and Western Film (Bloomsbury Press, 2015); and Occupy This Body: A Buddhist Memoir (Sumeru Press, 2019).