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Jaune Evans is a senior meditation teacher, an ordained Soto Zen priest, poet, visual artist, and community facilitator. She teaches with the Bay Area Everyday Zen lineage of Zoketsu Norman Fischer, and leads the Heart of Compassion Zen Sangha in Point Reyes, California. Jaune worked in philanthropy for three decades as the Executive Director of several foundations -  Tamalpais Trust, Lannan Foundation, Tides Foundation, and the New Mexico Community Foundation. Her diverse interests and professional expertise include public health and hospice, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, protecting sacred lands and waters, cultural and human rights, gender empowerment, and global justice alliance-building. She serves on the Board of Directors of Commonweal, the leadership team of Healing Circles, the adjunct faculty of the Cancer Help Program, and as a Creative Advisor to the Mesa Refuge Writer’s Refuge in Point Reyes, California.