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Ep.2 The Power of Kindness with Sita Lozoff and Erin Parish
In this episode, Sita Lozoff and Erin Parish talk with Vita Pires, about the past, present, and future of the Human Kindness Foundation.
- How the Human Kindness Project began in 1973
ERIN PARISH Erin Parish is the Executive Director of Human Kindness Foundation. She has twenty years of experience helping individuals and communities build resilience after war and incarceration. Erin has worked with victims and combatants of violence in Colombia and Northern Ireland. In North Carolina, she’s designed peer support reentry programs and transitional jobs programs for people coming out of prison, and driver’s license restoration programs to help people avoid incarceration. In all of her work, she seeks to create conditions that allow others to realize their full power. She has a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Masters in History from Duke University and an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies from Trinity College Dublin. In her free time, she loves cooking and throwing dinner parties, discovering new music, and playing outside with her family.
SITA LOZOFF Sita Lozoff is the co-founder of the Prison-Ashram Project with her late husband, Bo Lozoff and Ram Dass in 1973. She's presently the spiritual director of this project which is still thriving almost for close to fifty years. She taught mindfulness on North Carolina's death row for years and we continue to send out hundreds of free books to people inside.
To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org
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By Prison Mindfulness InstituteIn this episode, Sita Lozoff and Erin Parish talk with Vita Pires, about the past, present, and future of the Human Kindness Foundation.
- How the Human Kindness Project began in 1973
ERIN PARISH Erin Parish is the Executive Director of Human Kindness Foundation. She has twenty years of experience helping individuals and communities build resilience after war and incarceration. Erin has worked with victims and combatants of violence in Colombia and Northern Ireland. In North Carolina, she’s designed peer support reentry programs and transitional jobs programs for people coming out of prison, and driver’s license restoration programs to help people avoid incarceration. In all of her work, she seeks to create conditions that allow others to realize their full power. She has a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Masters in History from Duke University and an MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Studies from Trinity College Dublin. In her free time, she loves cooking and throwing dinner parties, discovering new music, and playing outside with her family.
SITA LOZOFF Sita Lozoff is the co-founder of the Prison-Ashram Project with her late husband, Bo Lozoff and Ram Dass in 1973. She's presently the spiritual director of this project which is still thriving almost for close to fifty years. She taught mindfulness on North Carolina's death row for years and we continue to send out hundreds of free books to people inside.
To Learn More About the Prison Mindfulness Institute, please visit www.prisonmindfulness.org