“All life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rhonda Magee
Rhonda Magee is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Contemplative Law and Ethics at the University of San Francisco, and a Fellow at the Mind and Life Institute. She is an internationally-recognized teacher, guide and mentor, focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law and social change work. A prolific author, she draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act and live better together in a rapidly changing world.
She is dedicated to increasing understanding and collaboration across differences. She encourages us to open up the space for change, growth and caring action in a multicultural world together through socially-engaged mindfulness.
Her 2019 book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness, describes her journey from a childhood in a racially-segregated subsidized housing community in 1960s North Carolina to a nationally sought speaker on mindfulness – e.g. last month she lectured at Harvard Medical School on mindfulness and ethics in cultivating just communities and practices. Magee was inspired by her mother and grandmother's resilience despite adversity to live with a sense of purpose, dignity and generosity.