Dawn Haney (they/she) is a teacher, coach, and consultant committed to supporting learning and change while attending to dynamics of identity and power. Their Buddhist and social justice training is alchemized with experience as a white, fat, queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill, nonbinary femme.
As a Mentor, they integrate training as a peer counselor who believes you know your conditions best, alongside a master’s in health behavior that compassionately supports you to try new ways of learning and leading. Finding dharma in 2003 through healing family addiction and seeking resilience in political organizing, Dawn has been grateful to join a lineage of trauma-sensitive mindfulness. She is a consultant for MMTCP’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Team, a Community Dharma Leader via Spirit Rock, a Community Teacher at East Bay Meditation Center’s Alphabet Sangha, and has taught across the US in her prior role as codirector of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.