Kate Johnson is a Buddhist meditation teacher, facilitator, writer and mother. She currently serves as the co-director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship, an organization that offers spiritual practice and political education to cultivate true inner and outer peace. Kate has taught in public schools, community health centers, activist organizations and performance collectives, and was fully empowered as Dharma teacher in the western Insight/Theravada Buddhist lineage in 2020, through Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s four year retreat teacher training. Kate is also an utterly unprofessional dancer who holds a BFA in Dance from the Alvin Ailey School/ Fordham University, a MA in Performance Studies from NYU. She is the author of the book Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World. In the off hours, you can find her exploring Philadelphia with her kid, sipping tea with friends, and looking for all manner of good trouble.