Ellis Widner is a retired journalist with some 30 years of meditation, practice, study, and teaching experience. He has studied with, and attended retreats with lineage masters in the Vajrayana, Mindfulness, and Zen traditions and was the English language editor for several Tibetan translations.
Ellis also has taught meditation in the Arkansas prison the system through Compassion Works for All and is a past President of the board of the Ecumenical Buddhist Society of Little Rock. He was co-founder of an Oklahoma organization that raised funds to support programs for people with AIDS and did caregiving training in Arkansas to work with people with HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer’s.
Ellis can be reached at ewidner@uams.edu