Kate Summers had the good fortune to encounter both Eva Wong and Shambhala in 2008.

A licensed clinical social worker, she worked many years in community mental health and as a Buddhist chaplain in the Los Angeles County women’s jail. She is a student of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, serves on the Los Angeles Shambhala Council, gives her time to two organizations seeking to abolish mass incarceration, is a student and instructor in the Qigong lineages of Eva Wong -- and is lucky to have three generations of family close by!