Chodo Robert Campbell Sensei, is a co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care - a non-profit organization that focuses on the teaching of Zen and Buddhist practice with the goal to make them more accessible to people all around the world. The center delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and meditation practice. Chodo is a dynamic, grounded, and visionary leader and teacher; he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S instructing in various institutions. Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling and advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with the dying.

He is also on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School's Center for Integrative Medicine's Integrative Medicine Fellowship and the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine in San Diego.

Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After many years as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which offers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and Zen practice. Today, New York Zen Center's methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals. Koshin is a world renowned thought leader in contemplative care. He is the author of Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion (Balance/Hachette, 2022); Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019) and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016). His work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, CBS Sunday Morning, Tricycle among other publications.

He is currently on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School's Center for Integrative Medicine's Integrative Medicine Fellowship, on Faculty of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, and he is a visiting professor at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, of the University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston Medical School.

Dorothy Dai-en Friedman Sensei’s spiritual journey began in the 1960s when she was forced to seek help for a back injury. This event proved to be a wonderful preparation for her eventual immersion 20 years later in Buddhist Vipassana practice at Insight Meditation Center. After she established her Vipassana practice with Joseph Goldstein and Matt Flickstein, she then began her journey into Soto Zen practice. with Peter Muryu Mathiessen Roshi, from whom she received both ordination and Dharma Transmission as a part of the White Plum Asanga. Dai-en is now a Sensei at Ocean Zendo, located on Eastern Long Island. She is honored to be invited to teach with Koshin Sensei and Chodo Sensei in the wonderful work at NYZC, for the benefit of all beings, as we live and die.

Doshin Johnson Sensei is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and teacher currently serving as Assistant Minister at Sozenji Buddhist Temple in Montebello, CA. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, within the Catholic religious tradition, she served over 3 decades in Chicago as a bilingual social worker and local government administrator. She experienced a 'call' to interfaith chaplaincy and began to practice zazen meditation with Bobby Byrd Sensei of El Paso, Texas in the lineage of Soyu Matsuoka Sensei. She is a graduate of the Foundations in Contemplative Care training at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and the University of the West where she earned a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Chaplaincy. In addition to training with her teacher, Gyokei Yokoyama Sensei, she works with Shumyo Kojima Roshi at Zenshuji Soto Mission in Los Angeles; Seido Suzuki Roshi at Toshoji Senmon Sodo Monastery in Okayama, Japan; and has completed chaplaincy internship and residency units at hospitals in Whittier and La Jolla, California. She currently lives in San Diego with her husband of nearly 31 years.