Faculty, Staff & Board

Fleet Maull, Executive Director

Fleet is a trainer, coach, educator, prison reform activist, and peace worker with over 25 years experience. He teaches engaged spirituality and contemplative approaches to social action and peacemaking at Naropa University. He is a certified trainer with the Center for Council Training, Peacemaker Circle International, and HeartStream Education. Fleet is a senior meditation teacher in both the Zen Peacemaker and Shambhala Buddhist communities.

Fleet is the founder of Prison Dharma Network and National Prison Hospice Association. He leads trainings and retreats for prison volunteers and peacemakers throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt, Retreat Leader

Genro is a Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order and a dharma successor of Roshi Bernie Glassman. He started studying with Maezumi Roshi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1971 serving as Board Chairman there from 1987 to 1997. After the passing of Maezumi Roshi in 1995, he worked closely with Bernie and started serving full time as Executive Director of the Peacemaker Community in early 1997. He studied at the University of Southern California and at the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA in finance. Feeling that his path was to unfold from a lay perspective, he pursued a professional career in real estate and finance forming Western Property Research, a real estate consulting firm that operated from 1984 to 1997. He has two sons, John and Parker. Baptized as a Congregationalist and raised as a Presbyterian., his interfaith studies have led him to explore Native American traditions and Sufi Muslim practices. Further interfaith plunges will include Jewish and Catholic retreats.

Board of Directors

Acharya Fleet Maull (Board President), Providence, Rhode Island. Founder of Prison Dharma Network and National Prison Hospice Association, Shambhala International senior meditation teacher, and ordained dharma holder in the Zen Peacemaker Order.

Kate Crisp (Board Vice-President), Providence, Rhode Island, Executive Director of Prison Dharma Network.

Roshi Grover Genro Gauntt, Genro studied at the University of Southern California and at the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA in finance.

Michael Brady (Board Treasurer), Boulder, Colorado, Mike brings with him 20 years of finance and investment experience. He helped co-found and lead a number of enterprises, including a brokerage firm, public mutual fund, registered investment advisory firm, and various private placement investments. He is founder and president of Generosity Wealth Management, which is dedicated to the belief that money can and should do good things--for you, your family and the causes you believe in.

Cassidy Murphy (Board Secretary) Cassidy is an attorney and former Deputy District Attorney for the City of Boulder, CO.

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