Roshi Bernie Glassman, PhD, is a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen movement and founder of Zen Peacemakers. He is a spiritual leader, author, and businessman and teaches at the Maezumi Institute and the Harvard Divinity School. A socially responsible entrepreneur for over 30 years, Bernie developed Greyston Mandala to provide permanent housing, jobs, job training, child-care, after-school programs, and other support services to a large community of formerly homeless families in Yonkers, New York.