DR. REBECCA LI, a Dharma heir in the Dharma Drum lineage of Chan Master  Sheng Yen, started practicing meditation in 1995. She began her teacher’s training with Master Sheng Yen in 1999 to become a Dharma and  meditation instructor. Later on, she trained with John Crook and Simon Child to lead intensive retreats and received full Dharma transmission  from Simon Child in 2016. 

Currently, she leads Chan retreats, teaches meditation and Dharma classes, and gives public lectures in North  America and the U.K. She is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community and a sociology professor at The College of New Jersey, where she also serves as faculty director of the Alan Dawley Center for the  Study of Social Justice.

Her talks and writings can be found at www.rebeccali.org.